An Zhe was kicked open by Lu Xun, and was taken out with his head wrapped in his uniform jacket.
Of course, Shi Xiao and Boss Xiao were taken out, but they wrapped their heads themselves.
Lu Xun called in a large ultrasonic jammer at the entrance of the building, temporarily clearing a 10-meter-circular space. An Zhe was safely stuffed into the car, and Shi Xiao and Boss Xiao sneaked in, and the three of them squeezed into the back seat.
Lu Xun returned to the driver's seat and said, "It's overloaded."
An Zhe inexplicably felt that the judge was targeting him.
Boss Xiao took the initiative to say, "Report to the colonel, no, it's not overloaded."
"Oh." Lu Xun said.
He made a call: "The rescue plan of ultrasonic interference instrument is feasible. It is recommended to organize a large-scale evacuation of residents."
Howard's voice came from the other end of the communicator: "Escape to the underground shelter?"
Lu Xun said: "Go to the shelter in District 8 first to confirm safety."
"Thank you."
Lu Xun started the engine, and their car turned a corner and drove towards District 8.
Along the way, Lu Xun's communicator rang crazily. The city office had just sent a distress signal, and District 5 requested reinforcements. After District 5 had just received reinforcements, the court called to say that they were short of manpower.
Later, Lu Xun's answers had become very mechanical.
"Please transfer to the City Defense Office."
"Please transfer to the
City Defense Office." "Please transfer to the
City Defense Office." "Thank you for your hard work. Please transfer to the City Defense Office."
"Lu Xun, you f---"
-- This time, the person on the other end was Howard.
Lu Xun hung up the call directly.
After hanging up, he frowned slightly and said to the researcher next to him: "Have you received any communication from District 6?"
Researcher: "It seems not."
Lu Xun dialed: "District 6?"
"Hello, this is the District 6 City Affairs Office, may I ask you..."
The person on the line spoke in a calm tone, which even surprised An Zhe.
Lu Xun frowned even more deeply: "Trial Court, Lu Xun. What's the situation in District 6?"
The other party paused: "Everything is normal in District 6. May I ask if you have any questions--"
Lu Xun interrupted again: "Everything is normal?"
"Yes."
Lu Xun hung up the phone decisively and looked at the researcher.
The researcher was stunned for a moment, then he couldn't hide his excitement in his voice: "There is only one explanation, the emergency procedure of the ultrasonic dispersal device in Area 6 has been activated."
Shi: "Wow."
Lu Feng continued to dial: "Trial Court, Lu Feng, please confirm again that everything is normal in Area 6, please confirm that the dispersal device is working normally."
"Confirm that everything is normal." The operator's voice even had a hint of doubt: "Colonel, is there something wrong?"
"Yes." Lu Feng's answer was brief and direct: "Raise the isolation wall immediately, confirm the supply of materials, and prepare for emergency shelter."
"Yes!"
"Howard. The situation has changed, the whole city is evacuating to Area 6."
"Okay." The other end said: "The city defense station is responsible for the rescue and transfer of personnel."
"Received," Lu Feng said, "The court is responsible for screening."
"Thank you."
After the call was hung up, Lu Feng called another number. An Zhe noticed that the number was particularly short.
"Main city, United Front Center. Hello, Colonel Lu."
"Court, Lu Feng. Requesting permission for the city-wide trial."
"Please give the expected mortality rate and execution time."
Lu Feng was silent for three seconds, then said, "10 percent, five days."
"Please wait."
"Full trial..." An Zhe heard Shi Xiao mutter beside him, "Isn't this..."
Boss Xiao looked straight ahead and said, "Trial day."
Five minutes later, a voice came from the communicator.
"Permission granted."
"Yes."
The car turned around and drove in the direction of District 6.
Along the way, An Zhe felt that Lu Xun was particularly silent.
When they entered the road to District 5, a huge armored vehicle of the City Defense Post was parked in front of them. An ugly ultrasound machine was temporarily installed on the top of the armored vehicle, and it was rescuing residents in the building. Lu Xun stopped under the armored vehicle and opened the door.
"Go to the meeting and prepare for the trial day." He said, "You and the City Defense Post."
An Zhe just blindly followed the judge's orders until he was stuffed into the armored vehicle by the soldiers of the City Defense Post. He suddenly woke up and realized that he had forgotten to return the clothes to Lu Xun, and Lu Xun didn't want them.
There was no time to go out to look for Lu Xun. With a muffled sound, the armored vehicle's compartment closed, the light disappeared, and it drove towards District 6. In the dim light, there were bodies everywhere. Shi Xiao grabbed his hand tightly, and he grabbed Boss Xiao's sleeve with his other hand. The compartment swayed slightly, and in the hot and humid air, crying came from somewhere.
"Did you hear it?" Shi Xiao whispered, "The expected mortality rate on this trial day is 10%."
An Zhe said, "Yeah."
"I'm a little scared." Shi Xiao said, "They will survive."
An Zhe didn't know that he was indeed a little nervous, but not because of the trial day, but because of the bite from the insect.
Shi seemed to feel his stiffness and patted his back gently: "Don't be afraid, go to sleep first."
An Zhe said "hmm" softly and closed his eyes. The slight shaking of the carriage could easily make him fall asleep.
The world gradually darkened and a scene suddenly appeared in front of him.
The ground, the wind, the blurred but vast vision, the strange fluctuations, not what humans see.
He was flying, surrounded by wind, and his body was very light.
Where was he flying to?
He saw a blurry gray city, with warmth coming from there -
with a start, An Zhe woke up suddenly.
He stared blankly at the darkness in front of him. The scene just now was too blurry, and he didn't know what it meant. But he had encountered similar scenes before, in the caves in the abyss, when his mycelium absorbed An Ze's blood and took root in An Ze's internal organs and bones - the knowledge of mankind appeared before his eyes.
An Zhe breathed a sigh of relief.
*
The disaster came suddenly, just like this sudden judgment.
It was late at night, and at the entrance of Area 6, the dim lights were on, and the black group of people formed a long snake along the isolation wall, stretching to the end of the sight. The sound of insects flapping their wings came from all directions. One could imagine how they were staring at the city, as if they were staring at a greenhouse that was capable of reproducing offspring. At the same time, the rumbling of wheels, the sound of tracks running, and the vibration of the floor being crushed by heavy armor came over. The military was continuously rescuing residents from various residential areas, and rail transit trains were also responsible for transporting residents. Sometimes insects would sneak into the train, but they couldn't care less. After these residents arrived at the outskirts of Area 6, they were lined up at the end of the line, waiting for trial.
The team was a black river, countless in number, and they moved forward slowly. After passing the trial, they could enter the safe Area 6.
The mechanical broadcast kept emphasizing "Please obey the queue rules" and "Please wait patiently". Occasionally, there would be screams in the team, and if a person mutated in public, the soldiers patrolling around the team would immediately shoot him. After a few gunshots, the group went from being restless at the beginning to dead silence. They moved forward very slowly, and no one was willing to move forward, but the soldiers were always driving them.
But the main source of gunfire was not the center of the team, but the gate of the isolation wall.
"It's been a hundred years," said an old man, "Judgment Day has come."
The 18-year-old boy held by the old man looked up at his elders in fear, but did not get any comfort worth mentioning. The old man's eyes were empty, and he just held his hand tighter.
Outside, it was the bugs that killed them. They were rescued from the insect tide, and in District 6, it was the people who killed them.
God judges the world, and there is still good and evil as a basis.
The night deepened, and the sound of the wind came from afar, like a distant tide. District 6 is the only isolated island in the vast ocean.
There was a gunshot, and a person fell in front of Anzhe. Two soldiers dragged his body away. Each residential area has a huge garbage incinerator, which now serves as a body incinerator.
There was a gunshot, and one person fell.
The team kept shrinking. More people were killed than those who entered the city through the trial.
The team kept moving forward, and Anzhe saw the structure of this trial.
First, there was a buffer zone, which was tightly guarded by guards. If the person had already shown mutation characteristics that could be identified by the naked eye, the soldiers would kill him first. After passing the first level, there are four judges on both sides of the isolation door. Each person has a veto and can shoot and kill people at any time - as long as he thinks that this person is not a human, regardless of whether his colleagues' judgment is consistent with his.
The people they shot and killed accounted for about a quarter of all deaths. Unlike being spawned and bitten, this process is very slow, and many characteristics of human infection are not obvious. More often, they look at each other and let this person pass.
At this time, that person will go to the bloodiest place and face the last level.
Lu Feng.
——He was not sitting upright or standing with his hands down in a solemn posture. He was still leaning against the door in a slightly lazy manner, seemingly playing with the gun in his hand carelessly. He used the gun to exercise the highest and final judicial power.
The gun went off. He executed a twelve-year-old child. After the child fell, his eyes were still fixed on him.
A judge looked pale, his throat twitched, and he bent down, trying to suppress dry gasps.
Lu Xun glanced at that direction calmly: "Change."
The judge was taken away by the soldier. During the short transition time, no one was tried. The city office staff in white shirts came forward and gave each judge a bottle of ice water with green mint leaves soaked in the water. But Lu Xun refused.
Less than a minute later, a new judge took over and the trial process started again.
Boss Xiao and Shi pushed and shoved each other, and no one was willing to go forward first. Finally, An Zhe was pushed to the first place.
The soldier looked at him and made a pass gesture. An Zhe continued to move forward. The four judges looked at each other and let him go.
An Zhe walked in front of Lu Xun. The green eyes of the Judge looked at him, slightly dim under the light, without any emotion, just like the day they first met.
An Zhe lowered his eyes slightly.
Coincidentally, he had only been at the human base for a month, but this was already the fourth time he had faced the Judge's judgment.
Just this morning, he was stung by a bug on his hand, but nothing happened except for some strange images that briefly flashed through his mind.
If Lu Xun didn't see the problem -
he was thinking this way, he saw Lu Xun raise his left hand, and then press it down slightly - it was a gesture of passing.
He breathed a sigh of relief and walked in - Lu Xun's clothes and work manual were still on him, but in this situation, it was obviously inappropriate to return things to Lu Xun.
He stopped at the entrance of the passage.
There was a military checkpoint in front, squeezed together in the most space-saving way, and a car could accommodate fifty or ten people. People who passed through the city gate could choose to get on the car. After the car was full, the military would take them to the shelter - some vacant residential buildings. If even the vacant buildings were full, they would be assigned to normal buildings and live in the same room with the natives. In short, there was still a place to go.
And if the visitor was a resident of District 6, or had close relatives and friends in District 6, they could move around on their own.
In less than a minute, Boss Xiao and Shi 그껩 came in one after another.
"Huh." Boss Xiao said, "You're alive."
"When we were rescued from the city defense station by the judge, we made sure we hadn't been infected before, and we stayed in the car all the way." Shi Xiao smiled and said, "It's natural that we passed."
Boss Xiao glanced at him: "Who was the one who didn't dare to be tried first just now?"
Shi Xiao said, "I forgot."
Boss Xiao patted An Zhe's shoulder: "Where is your home? I have to find a place to sleep. I haven't slept for two days."
An Zhe said, "I'm not going home."
Boss Xiao frowned: "Then what are you doing?"
An Zhe pointed to the clothes on his body: "I'm going to return the clothes when he is free."
Boss Xiao patted his head: "I forgot, I'm not going to your house."
"Forget it," he said, "Go find a mistress."
An Zhe watched his master leave, and for a moment he didn't understand why he used the word "mistress".
Then he heard a poem saying, "Boss Xiao has been running the third underground floor for so many years. At least 10% of the pornographic books and videos in the base come from his store. It is said that when he was young, he had countless mistresses."
An Zhe found that his master seemed to be really famous. He said, "You all know him?"
"That's how the base is." Shi Xiao laughed and said, "Who doesn't know what Boss Xiao does?"
"However, he is not very romantic after he got old." Shi Xiao said, "When you mention the third floor, I think of Du Sai. Have you seen her? Du Sai is the most beautiful woman in the outer city."
An Zhe nodded.
Shi Xiao sighed, "I don't know where she is now. If she died, I would feel very sorry..."
An Zhe didn't say anything.
Shi Xiao was imprisoned, so of course he didn't know that the boss lady of the third floor of the black market had died in the prelude of the breeding season.
An Zhe suddenly understood something.
A person will feel sad for the death of another person. This is a unique emotion of human beings. This may be one of the reasons why they are more afraid of death than other creatures.
"You have that expression." Shiwei said.
Anzhe whispered: "What?"
"Everything that happened here has nothing to do with you. You seem to be just watching." Shiwei put his elbow on his shoulder and said jokingly: "You seem to be observing us, or pitying us. Just for a second, I felt that there was a kind of divinity in you."
Anzhe blinked, not quite understanding.
He may really not be like a human. After all, he is an alien.
"Not now." Shi Xiao blew a breath in his ear: "Now you look like a fool."
An Zhe: "..."
Shi Xiao patted his shoulder: "Let's go."
An Zhe: "Where are you going?"
"Whatever." Shi Xiao said: "The City Defense Office has no time to take care of you, you are going to escape."
He smiled at An Zhe: "Goodbye."
An Zhe watched his back disappear in the vast night.
Shi Xiao was a prisoner detained by the City Defense Office. He had no communicator and no ID card. An Zhe didn't know where he went.
Maybe he would go to his boyfriend, An Zhe thought.
Or maybe, he would go to tell someone else the story of the establishment of the base, and then, within three days, the City Defense Office would take him away again.
After Shi walked away, Anzhe was the only one left standing at the foot of the wall. It was an open space. He was not the only one staying here. There were many people wandering and talking nearby. Some people gathered in the distance, and no one knew what they were doing.
The temporary isolation wall was not high and was translucent. He could see Lu Xun's back from here.
The aurora rotated and changed in the sky. Every night, the color of the sky was different from the previous night. Corpses were constantly being dragged away from the city gate, but few people came in. Gunshots and death seemed to be the only eternal things. The night wind was strong, bringing the bloody smell in. An Zhe couldn't see Lu Xun's expression. He just thought that his back looked very nice and... lonely.
There were footsteps behind him.
"Why are you here?" A familiar voice.
An Zhe turned around and saw that it was the young judge who often followed Lu Xun. He was holding a bottle of mint water, his face was not good, but his expression was still gentle: "Aren't you going back?"
An Zhe nodded.