After the train had been running at high speed for ten minutes, the city had been completely left behind. After Lu Xun withdrew his right hand, An Zhe looked at the direction from which he came, which was shrouded in a thick cloud. The fighter planes returned, passing over the top of the train with a roar, and disappeared from his sight.
He said nothing, stared quietly for dozens of seconds, and then returned to his original seat and sat down.
The moment he got on the train, he was still thinking that he would use the communicator to inform Boss Xiao of his whereabouts after the communication was restored. Now it seems that it is useless.
He held his chin and looked outside. In his peripheral vision, he saw a black figure. Lu Xun sat down in the seat next to him, and the young judge who had been following him sat down next to him.
"Colonel, news from the court." He said, "The court evacuated 21 people, 9 died, 4 were infected, and all were killed."
Lu Xun said, "What about the city defense station?"
"No data for the time being."
Then, there was no sound next to him. An Zhe had been looking out the window - but there was actually nothing worth seeing outside the window. In the rain and mist, all he could see was the empty concrete floor.
This is a buffer zone. From the city gate to the outer city, and even between each area of the outer city, there is a huge buffer zone with no buildings on it. The purpose is that once an alien invasion or large-scale war occurs, the existence of the buffer zone can help the military gain precious rapid response time, so as not to allow aliens to directly rush into densely populated residential areas.
After a while, there was a movement in the carriage. Colin, who had fainted briefly before, regained consciousness, climbed up from the aisle, and sat back in his original seat. His face was pale, and he lowered his head. He took out a pair of black-framed glasses from his pocket, wiped them with the corner of his clothes, and did not speak again. At this moment, An Zhe felt that this boy was different from the person he met for the first time.
He turned his head and looked at Lu Xun.
At this moment, Lu Xun withdrew from Colin and looked at him.
Their eyes met, and An Zhe calmly grabbed the corner of his clothes.
Lu Xun just glanced at him lightly and looked away. An Zhe felt that Lu Xun was very strange at this time - even though they slept in the same bed last night.
After thinking for a while, An Zhe asked, "What are you going to do next?"
Lu Xun said, "According to the courses you have learned, you may teach children to read."
"What about you?"
Lu Xun said, "Listen to the arrangements of the main city."
An Zhe mustered up his courage and said, "Will you go to the lighthouse?"
- He knew that the spores would most likely be at the lighthouse.
Lu Xun glanced at him.
An Zhe felt that this was like looking at a mentally retarded person.
"I belong to the military." Lu Xun said, "The next task is to recover the scattered hearts."
An Zhe: "...Oh."
He whispered, "Then you do your best."
Lu Xun looked at him quietly for a few seconds and said, "Thank you."
After that, they didn't talk anymore. An Zhe inexplicably felt that the colonel might be too talkative.
Ten minutes later, the train stopped at the station and Lu Xun walked to the front of the train.
At the same time, the radio sounded in the train: "Dear passengers, to ensure the safety of the main city, please line up for secondary inspection."
The people in the car began to line up, and An Zhe and Ke Lin were at the end. The secondary inspection was a genetic inspection using a machine, and the inspector was still the young doctor in a white coat with blond hair and blue eyes. After he and Colin each had a tube of blood drawn, the doctor started the machine and said, "Wait five minutes."
An Zhe obediently pressed the cotton swab on the place where his blood was drawn and stood aside. The doctor smiled and said, "It's you
." An Zhe: "Hello."
"The judge actually brought people to do genetic testing, wow." The doctor said, "Our entire testing department was surprised."
An Zhe said, "He now believes that I am a human."
"He may just want to find fault." The doctor shrugged, "People from the tribunal always have some mental problems."
An Zhe said, "Is he okay."
The doctor cast an admiring look at him, "You are the first person I have seen who speaks for Colonel Lu."
As he spoke, the doctor's eyes moved to his arm, "Injured?"
An Zhe noticed that because of the large range of motion, the cufflinks were pulled upwards, and the bandage wrapped around his arm was exposed a little.
An Zhe: "Yeah."
"It's time to change the dressing." The doctor picked up the medical box beside him and pulled out a new bandage: "I'll change it for you."
The doctor seemed to be a casual and kind person. An Zhe whispered: "Thank you."
The doctor untied his original bandage and casually said: "This knot is tied wrong."
An Zhe thought about it and said nothing. He decided to tell the doctor that it was Lu Xun who tied it on him. Otherwise, the testing department might be surprised again - they seemed to think that Lu Xun was the kind of bad guy with no bottom line.
As soon as this thought came out, An Zhe suddenly frowned.
At this moment, he seemed to understand why Lu Xun was talking to others. The position of judge was destined to be like this.
As he was thinking this, he heard Colin beside him whispered: "Doctor."
The doctor tied the bandage for An Zhe and looked at him: "Hmm?"
"Now that the outer city has been completely destroyed, there is no need for the Tribunal to exist." Colin said: "Can we know the principle of the Tribunal's judgment?"
An Zhe thought that Colin was indeed a firm opponent.
"Why do you want to know?" The doctor leaned on the instrument car, looked at him with his arms folded, and said, "Have your family and friends been killed by Lu Feng?"
"My mother." Colin said, "The time she went to the wild, she didn't take out the armored vehicle the whole time."
"Although there are few micro monsters, they are not absent."
"But there is nothing abnormal in her appearance and behavior."
"Uh-huh." The doctor said lightly: "So what? If everyone's relatives have to ask the court and the inspection department for an explanation, we will not have any time to ensure the safety of the city gate."
"But it's the same now, you have time." Colin's voice raised: "We just want to know the reason."
Looking at him, the doctor smiled.
"You're right, it's the same now." The doctor said softly, "You are now people of the main city, and you will slowly learn a lot of information."
He said casually, "Do you think that after being infected, the human body will be slowly eroded?"
Colin said, "What if?"
"Yes." The doctor looked up at the sky: "When the infection occurs, your DNA chain - all DNA structures will change in that instant. Once infected, a person's ending is determined."
"Maybe." Colin said, "I've studied biology. The virus needs time to spread, and there will be an incubation period-"
But the doctor interrupted him directly.
"Next, the structure of the DNA chain affects the composition of RNA, and the change of RNA affects the production of proteins. Human biological characteristics begin to change. These things all begin to happen in a very short period of time. Your skin, appearance, demeanor, movement, way of thinking, language ability... all are changing. All the training that judges receive before becoming official judges is how to observe this kind of thing with the naked eye." He smiled and said, "When their accuracy rate reaches 10%, they can graduate and officially take up the job. Do you think your superficial observation of human behavior can compare to their more than ten years of training?"
"10 percent." Colin raised his eyes suddenly: "So the Tribunal can't completely identify the aliens, they really use large-scale mass killings to ensure that they won't release the wrong ones, right?"
"I'm sorry, I have to tell you something." The doctor looked at him: "Lu Xun's score that year was 10 percent."
Colin stood there in a daze for a few seconds, and said: "...It's possible."
"I hope you won't use mediocre standards to judge the upper limit of others' abilities, especially after entering the main city." The doctor said in a light tone. He spoke to Colin, but his eyes looked at An Zhe: "At least when it comes to testing whether the judgment results are correct or not, he has never failed. The Testing Department and the Trial Court are in close contact, and I have seen his assessment results. The judge scored full marks on all indicators that year, but this may be the reason why he can accurately judge aliens."
"He seems to have an innate talent, an intuition." The doctor said: "Back then, after discovering his talent in this area, the Testing Department had to draw his blood once a month, but unfortunately no research results were found."
"You..." Colin frowned and said, "This goes against science. Intuition can't be used as a scientific basis. The infection method you mentioned at the beginning is..."
A short "beep" sounded, and the machine lit up green.
"Your new ID cards and communicators, get on the shuttle, the main city will assign you a place to live." The doctor handed two blue crystals and communicators to them, "Next, wait for the message from the communicator."
Colin took the things: "But..."
"I know it goes against some principles of biological science, but the most terrifying thing about this era is that-" The doctor looked at him, his blue eyes seemed to be full of frost, and he paused for a word and said: "We found that the system of human science is not worth mentioning."