evolution
District 4.
The fourth district was even closer to the Kingdom of God. A giant island descended from the sky like a slow motion scene, and after crashing to the ground, everything suddenly accelerated. A terrifying force of impact spread out in all directions, like a stone dropped into calm waters, and humanity was scattered by the ripples on the surface.
At that moment, it seemed as if the world had perished, and Huo Wenxi was merely experiencing the embers of doomsday. All around him were sharp roars, and when the roars reached their climax, the entire world became silent as if deaf.
boom--!
Huo Wenxi's body tilted, and a huge force held her in his arms, using the back of the mechanical armor as a shield to block the bullet-like gravel.
Zhu Ning temporarily requisitioned a mycelium man to watch the fall of the Kingdom of God with Huo Wenxi.
After the banging sounds, Huo Wenxi struggled to get up and subconsciously raised her eyes. The mycelium man requisitioned by Zhu Ning was a tall robot. The stone penetrated her chest, and the mechanical core was probably injured somewhere. The mechanical eye kept twitching, flickering, and the engine oil flowed like blood.
Huo Wenxi's forehead was hit by stone chips, and her mind was a little confused. There was a taste of rust in her mouth, and the smell of blood was abnormally strong. It was not just her blood, Huo Wenxi was tasting the blood of hundreds of thousands of people.
She paused as she stood up, and caught a glimpse of a black spot in the ruins where the mycelium of the human-machine joint device was slowly growing.
It was taken from Huo Wenxi's solar acupoint not long ago, and the tail end of the mycelium is still stained with Huo Wenxi's blood.
Her brain was trying to make sense of the current situation. Zhu Ning swallowed Prometheus and was trapped in the Far North. The human-machine joint device became her only bridge to communicate with the outside world.
The human-machine joint device is not one-way, but two-way. After Huo Wenxi is connected to it, she can "meet" Zhu Ning in another way. They can communicate directly with consciousness without language communication.
Huo Wenxi promised that she would share this fate with Zhu Ning. She must know Zhu Ning's current situation and see the shadow of the female giant with her own eyes.
Huo Wenxi grabbed the human-machine combined device, but a mechanical hand grabbed her wrist, preventing her from moving like iron.
The robot kneeling on one knee was riddled with holes of all sizes. Zhu Ning's mechanical voice rang out, "Don't connect to me."
The black hyphae twitched in mid-air. Under normal circumstances, once they came into contact with human skin, the hyphae would rush in and settle on the neural network.
But this time the situation was very strange. The black mycelium actually retreated and shrank. It seemed that it was not Huo Wenxi who hesitated, but Zhu Ning, the representative behind the mycelium.
Tentacles were wriggling in Huo Wenxi's right eye socket, and the mycelium behind the black ring was also wriggling, as if following some common frequency.
Ordinary people probably need to organize their thoughts before they can understand the current situation, but Huo Wenxi doesn't need that. The little witch can skip the ordinary logical chain and directly understand the core of the problem. She and Zhu Ning share Huo Huaiying's eyes.
The instinct of the black slime is to devour. Anyone can connect to the human-machine joint device, except Huo Wenxi.
Once the black mycelium pierces Huo Wenxi's skin and entangles his nerve network, Zhu Ning will be unable to resist the urge to devour Huo Wenxi and obtain the complete Eye of Precognition.
The relationship between Zhu Ning and Huo Wenxi will become the relationship between a eater and food.
"Team Leader Huo!" Someone beside him roared. He grabbed Huo Wenxi's arm and pulled her up forcibly. The crisis was about to come, and they needed to ensure Huo Wenxi's safety.
Huo Wenxi allowed others to drag him into the flying car, but his eyes followed the robot outside the window.
The robot controlled by Zhu Ning maintained the hugging action. Her arms were empty, the cold light of the machine gradually went out, and the oil dripped out. This body was about to be scrapped.
Don’t connect to me, Zhu Ning warned silently.
Huo Wenxi closed his fingers, and the mycelium on the back of the human-machine combined device in his palm contracted and undulated, as if he was suppressing his instincts.
…
Black mycelium is growing.
Unit 03 could feel the growth trajectory of the mycelium, the mechanical skeleton, the artificial blood vessels, and the beating surface of the heart. The newly born Zhu Ning was almost entirely powered by the black mucus.
The black mycelium wrapped around her eyeballs and settled on her back. As a purely mechanical artificial creation, she had no mucus food on her body, so they could blend with each other in an extremely safe way.
Unit 03 put on a black protective suit and subconsciously began to search. This was a brand new world for her and an even more unfamiliar body. She should have looked for the chip, but her instinct was to find the gun.
The deeply ingrained habit remained unchanged, and she had to have the trigger in her hand to feel at ease.
With a click, someone sensed her need and popped out a drawer in front of her, containing spare weapons.
This gun doesn't have a high-tech feel, it's more primitive and retro. The sound of the gun is heavy and mechanical, and it's not even fully assembled. It should be for use by experimental subjects.
It feels strange that the system is another self. After all, they are two existences split from the same personality, and they are the ones who understand each other best in the world.
She was really no different from a robot. Influenced by the original setting, the moment her fingers touched the gun, she quickly installed it. She could assemble it quickly even with her eyes closed.
"Do you need to connect with other friends?" asked Zhu Ning in his mind.
The friends of the first generation machine were Shen Xingqiao and Ye Fei, and no matter how hard Zhu Ning of the second generation tried, he could not become close friends with them.
Because it is not you who has the feelings, even if it is the same person, it cannot be replaced.
The situation of the second and third generations is simpler. Their friends are the same group of people. The second generation Zhu Ning is immortal in a sense, but the third generation has a too short lifespan of only 48 hours and may also have emotional needs.
"Lin Xiaofeng, Liu Niannian, Huo Wenxi or Bai Cheng?" Zhu Ning asked. She was just inferring based on common sense, and at the same time she was rehearsing the death of Unit 03, trying her best to fulfill any last words or wishes.
If she wanted to contact Lin Xiaofeng and Bai Cheng, it would be troublesome because she had no idea where these two people were.
The No. 3 unit paused slightly in its gun assembly and did not answer this question immediately. Instead, it loaded the bullet neatly and pulled the trigger in one go. The bullet did not shatter the bulletproof glass, but only left a spiderweb pattern on it.
A good gun, Unit 03 thought.
"Neither," she said softly, looking down at the gun. "That's not necessary."
She didn't want to appear and disappear in the eyes of others. She could say some touching nonsense and then disappear, but others would have to spend their whole lives missing her, especially Lin Xiaofeng.
She had a clear vision of her position, and she would leave after killing Su He.
Not many people knew of her existence, and even if she died, no one would come to mourn her.
Unit 03 holstered his gun at his waist and glanced at the reflection in the glass, as if he could see the end of the world. "You care about me? Isn't that quite human?"
The power of the second generation Zhu Ning is stronger and more frightening than hers, but she cannot feel fear, after all, she is looking at another self.
She had just separated from Zhu Ning and knew how complicated this person was. She was operating multiple tasks at the same time, and she was just one of them.
The “system” that provides her with such caring services may also be killing people.
What was she doing to Liu Niannian? What was she doing to Huo Wenxi? Would she split off a team to search for Lin Xiaofeng simultaneously?
And Zhu Ning is still changing, becoming increasingly more indifferent.
Zhu Ning didn't answer her joke, as if it was automatically filtered out. Unit 3 shrugged, not expecting any response from the devil.
After she was fully equipped, she began to browse the chip cards on the wall. There were nine grooves in total on her arms, proving that she could use nine superpowers?
This was a technology he had never encountered before, so Zhu Ning casually picked up a chip from the wall.
It is the size of a coin, but its appearance is different from traditional chips. One of the vertical stripes is obviously filled with liquid, rather than a simple mechanical device. It even floats up and down slightly under the gaze of the human eye, like a living thing.
Very sophisticated stuff.
Is this supposed to be mounted on an arm? How does it work?
With a click, Zhu Ning tried to connect the first chip. The slot lit up with a black light, like a matrix cut by laser. There was a slight sound when the chip and the card slot locked.
An electric current flowed through her body from the arm slot. She shuddered and her heart contracted suddenly, as if a water pump was suddenly pressed and could not rebound. Her face was pale and she could not even stand steadily even holding on to the table.
She could hardly breathe until the black mycelium wrapped around her, like a hand reaching into her chest to perform remote CPR. The stone blocking her chest suddenly loosened, and a large amount of air poured in.
Her chest heaved violently, and it took her two seconds to find her thoughts.
This is an undebugged experimental subject. No wonder Prometheus has never used it. The success of the Alpha series experiments is indeed one in a million.
"Perform a debug." said Zhu Ning in his mind.
She stared at the glass wall in front of her, needing to feel the "veins" of her abilities, just like the first time she manipulated the honeycomb metal, except that before it was natural, now it was artificial.
The black mucus flowed quickly in her blood vessels like engine oil. She could even feel the subtle process. Zhu Ning was her system and would assist her in making the best experimental adjustments.
Wow——
The thick glass wall that couldn't be penetrated by gunfire before began to wrinkle, like ripples on the water, visible to the naked eye. The entire glass wall slid down like a huge curtain, just like the scene of replacing a billboard.
After the glass wall slides down, the employee observation room behind it is revealed. The cut is very neat, forming a sharp contrast with the material of the glass wall.
"Paperization." Zhu Ning said, "It can transform all forms into paper."
Unit 03's face was still pale, its heart aching from the overload. It asked, "Including humans?"
"Theoretically, it includes humans, but there are many restrained abilities, such as fire and water," Zhu Ning explained.
She sighed, feeling that this ability was neither good nor bad, as it was her first time choosing one and she had no experience.
Zhu Ning: "Chips are almost all physical damage, water and fire. For example, the 0056 you encountered is physical cutting. It is technically difficult to extract spiritual damage. The extraction rate is too low."
What this means is that more advanced spiritual systems, such as those that clear memories, affect other people's minds, or the foresight of little witches are more difficult to graft.
"Where did these special chips come from?" Unit 3 clenched its hands, still experiencing the feeling of using it just now.
"Exploitation." Zhu Ning said, "All artificial superpowers follow this path, but this time it's in the form of a chip."
"Pressing?" Unit 3 frowned. "Like pressing oil?"
"Almost," Zhu Ning said, having already retrieved the database. "For example, if you want fire abilities, you need to find a fire-type psychic and have them repeatedly release their abilities to capture energy and extract their spinal cord. However, energy is consumed during the conversion process, so to create a single chip, at least a dozen psychics would have to die from the exploitation."
"If you want a compound superpower, or to develop a new superpower, you need to merge the genes of two superpower users." She didn't talk about the genetic fusion in detail. Unit 03 guessed that it might be more painful than simple exploitation.
Unit 3 suddenly felt that the chip in the chip slot was very hot, as if the ghost of a dead person was howling inside.
Zhu Yao wondered if this part was also included when she created the Alpha series, but she didn't see it at all during the early preparations.
"Do you want to see? The 30th underground floor is the supernatural power extraction room." Zhu Ning called up the camera over there. There were hundreds of glass chambers filled with corpses lying sideways. Their bodies were twisted, as if a hand was constantly squeezing them, so squeezing was not an exaggeration.
The surface of Unit 03's eyeballs flashed the footage of the extraction room like a slide show. Some of them were not completely dead yet, with only one hand left, which was twitching involuntarily.
Unit 03's eyes felt dry and its heart ached involuntarily. That was the most direct feeling of seeing its own kind suffer.
For a moment, the information flooded in too much and she had to close her eyes. Zhu Ning considerately turned off the laboratory screen.
The Kingdom of God fell, but they did not resolve the core contradiction, and the pollution remains.
"Are these sixth-class citizens?" Unit 03 asked hoarsely. "The registered kind?"
Zhu Ning browsed through a lot of Federation history. "Yes, after being registered, they will enter the gene bank. Most will be assigned suitable positions, a small number will only be monitored, and a smaller number will be selected by the laboratory."
The chosen ones left their original communities quietly, and no one knew what happened to them.
This is the bloody history of the Federation in the past. Now the Kingdom of God has fallen, but such things will definitely happen again. As long as superpowers and pollution exist, whoever is in power will repeat the same mistakes.
Superpowers are only awakened in some humans. People without superpowers are like ants. After the fall of the Kingdom of God, this contradiction will intensify, and they will become more and more like two completely different human beings.
In the past, the Federation was a regime established by pure-blooded humans. If it were the other way around, it would be people with special abilities exploiting ordinary people.
But how do you determine which camp you belong to? Is it a genetic lottery?
After the incident in Area 103, they reported the existence of non-natural humans to their superiors very early on. These humans, whose abnormalities could not be detected, looked no different from ordinary people. In the past, they could pick out those with special abilities like picking out beans, but now everyone looks the same.
Only Area 103 remained stable. The psychics and non-natural humans stood together with ordinary people in front of the Kingdom of God. Other areas had no way to deal with this signal.
At that time, the Federation did not take the existence of non-natural humans seriously. They knew it very early, and all their hopes were placed on Liu Niannian. As long as new humans were born, the old humans could be directly abandoned.
The people of God's Kingdom will have a stable evolutionary path, and the lower-class people may also benefit from it and complete their evolution in the most gentle way.
Now this road is blocked.
Destruction, only true destruction can stop it, this is Su He’s philosophy.
She thought of the woman in the red windbreaker, who could destroy the world with a snap of her fingers, as if mocking her incompetence.
Does Zhu Ning truly have the power to build a new world? Will the future world truly be better? Humanity can't even pinpoint Zhu Ning's exact position.
Unit 3's heart grew heavier, and he asked a more realistic question: "How long will it take for the pollutants outside the wall to arrive?"
She had just woken up, and her last memory was in the Far North. She had spent a lot of time adventuring outside the wall, and the crisis inside the wall had no real feeling to her, but she was gradually regaining it.
Zhu Ning: "With the arrival of the vanguard troops, the suppression with hot weapons is having some effect."
From the perspective outside the wall, humans remotely launched weapons of mass destruction. The bombs exploded in the yellow sand, and rows of undead armies composed of sand were crushed. After the sand fell, it would continue to revive at the place where it fell. Human struggles were in vain. They were only delaying death and could not really prevent it.
"About ten hours, depending on the situation on the front line." Zhu Ning's voice might be too far away, as if he didn't care at all.
It sounds like an upgraded version of Area 103, but the reality is definitely not.
Unit 3 wants to kill Su He, so she has to force herself to think from Su He's perspective. She mutters to herself, "Su He's first act is to tear down the walls."
She regained her train of thought, her thoughts becoming increasingly clear. "The second thing is to smash your camera and break your omniscience. The third thing..." Unit 3's pupils shrank. "There will be multiple outbreaks of pollution within the wall."
No one knows exactly how many members there are in the Revival Society, but the content of unnatural humans must be very high. These monsters can expand their contaminated areas at any time and anywhere. They have been silent during the time when Zhu Ning went out of the wall. No violent conflicts have broken out in various areas. It is even quieter than before. They are lurking in the dark waiting for a perfect opportunity.
Now is the best opportunity. The kingdom of God has fallen, Prometheus has died, and the human army is scattered.
The mutants who are forced to wear collars will stand up, as will the unnatural humans who are forced to hide themselves and flee like rats, and the naturally antisocial mutants who hate ordinary people will do even more.
They have been looking forward to a long-standing reckoning with humanity. Su He doesn't even need to mentally pollute them. They are willing to sacrifice themselves for the future world.
What's more, their leader is Su He, who had betrayed the First Military Region long ago, like a bright red flag.
As long as unnatural humans from all over the world pollute the walls, shelters, and human gathering places, the pollution will spread like an infectious disease. A spark will ignite and converge with the pollution outside the walls, condensing into a big fire.
"Su He wants to force the evolution of all mankind." Unit 03's heart skipped a beat.
Evolution has always been in the hands of nature, and different civilizations have recorded this. They call the being that controls evolution a god, but Su He wants to artificially create the most grand evolution in history.
There is no need to be as pedantic as the Kingdom of God, sacrificing generations of women to give birth to new humans, nor is there a need for a complicated container like Zhu Yao's to create a new world.
She just wants to destroy, and then blow up all surviving human civilization like a fire source.
The strong survive and the weak die, and all human beings are equal in the face of pollution.
"She has already taken action." said Zhu Ning in his mind.
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