"Beep"
"Beep"
"Beep"
I don't know where, the instrument sounded monotonously. But there was another sound in the whole room.
"Boom."
"Boom."
"Boom."
This sound was very much like a human heartbeat, but it was not real, because it filled the whole room, and there seemed to be sound playing devices in the corners of the walls.
At this time, footsteps came from the end of the room. It was two humans, walking and talking, as if recording something.
After a while, a brief conversation sounded.
"Zone 4 is normal."
"Zone 6 is normal."
"Number 113 has stopped developing."
"Continue to observe."
"Number 334 has abnormally proliferated and must be destroyed."
"Number 334 was transplanted too early." "
There is no way. The report was not approved last time. The superiors are determined to use a high birth rate to offset the high abnormality rate." "
The embryo abnormality rate has been increasing in the past two years. This is not a wise decision at all. The embryo must stay in the mother's body for at least one more month to ensure smooth development."
"The mother's flowering period is too short. If the time is extended, the birth rate will not be enough."
"Why is it so difficult?"
"Optimistically, the overall number of children is increasing."
The footsteps gradually faded away, but the heartbeat that permeated the entire room was still ringing. The light in the room was dim and soft, like a stable nest or a huge empty organ. The strong heartbeat was like a proof of the existence of life.
Anzhe slowly exited the tube and felt a little uncomfortable in his body - it seemed that there was some strange fluctuation in this place that affected his body. But fortunately, after seeing the layout of the room, he finally regained his left and right cognition. He had to go to a place closer to the outside of the building.
After going around in the pipes for many times, I found many vents, which led to one square room after another. It seemed that they were still sleeping, and there was a baby sleeping in each room. I couldn't get out from under the bed to see, but I could hear the breathing sound, very faint, which was the breathing of the cubs. The windows were closed, and there was a camera with a red light above the room. I couldn't escape through such a room.
So after a long time, An Zhe finally succeeded in finding a vent on the ceiling of the corridor.
He came out carefully, stretched out his body on the ceiling, and moved along the corridor by climbing the ceiling - the camera was shooting upwards, and could not capture the picture on the ceiling.
The layout of each floor of the Garden of Eden was similar. He recognized that this should be a corridor for handling miscellaneous tasks, where indoor cleaning tools, daily necessities, food and sundries were stored.
He was slightly excited. According to the rules, there would be a door at three-quarters of the corridor, leading to a terrace of moderate size - occasionally drying things, and sometimes the staff would smoke there.
Soon, Anzhe successfully found the door, and he tried to stretch out the mycelium and slipped in through the gap in the door.
It was bright outside - it was already daytime.
But before An Zhe could think carefully, his attention was completely diverted.
On the empty terrace, on the concrete fence, stood a very tall figure in white, a girl in a white skirt. She had her back to An Zhe and was facing outside. She was slowly opening her arms and leaning forward - she was about to fall.
An Zhe appeared, took a few steps forward, grabbed the girl's shoulders, lifted her from the fence, and put her on the ground: "You..."
The girl turned her head.
An Zhe was stunned.
I have seen her before. Just two days ago, she ran out of the Garden of Eden to the street and was stopped by Lu Xun. Finally, she was taken away by the staff of the Garden of Eden. I would not mistake her.
At this time, she glanced at Anzhe. It was a look that was almost lifeless. It was not as bright as the children in Anzhe's class. For a moment, Anzhe felt that this girl was a lifeless doll. I know that my current image is not ordinary. I am wearing a robe woven from mycelium, maybe like a human wearing a bed sheet when going out - but normal humans do not wear a bed sheet when going out.
But the girl seemed to have seen nothing. She didn't seem to notice how special An Zhe's dress was, or how abrupt An Zhe's appearance was. She also didn't seem to recognize him, or she didn't remember that this person existed at all. Three seconds later, she slowly turned her head back and looked forward.
It was early morning outside. The aurora had just disappeared. Thick white mist was spreading over the dark grey city, rising and falling like waves towards the grey-blue sky. From this angle, half of the view was blocked by the cylindrical magnetic field generator not far away. It was bigger and taller than all the buildings, like a mountain, an isolated island in the sea mist, or a spiral staircase connecting the sky and the ground. The street lights and the morning stars in the sky were shining together, but they were dim in front of such a huge image.
And the girl looked up at the infinite sky above.
"I don't want to jump." Her voice was very childish, but her pronunciation was very clear: "I want to fly."
Anzhe said: "I will fall."
She said: "I know."
Her tone was also calm, unlike this young child. The morning breeze blew over, blowing her white skirt and black hair, which was unusually slender and soft, something that the women and girls outside didn't have - Du Sai also had this trait, but this girl was more obvious.
An Zhe stood behind her. He had just protected a human cub and paid a price for it. Now, his existence was exposed in the eyes of this girl. He was in extreme danger and could not show any flaws. An Zhe
asked, "Why are you here?"
"There were some times when the surveillance was messed up for a while and we didn't find it yet." The girl said, "I came out to look at the sky."
"You can also look at the sky during free time." An Zhe said, "Which floor and class are you in?"
An Zhe fulfilled his duties as a teacher seriously and could not let the cub stay in such a dangerous place.
She said, "I'm in the Garden of Eden."
An Zhe: "Which floor and class are you in in the Garden of Eden?"
"I'm not in that floor and class." She said, "Only boys are there."
An Zhe patiently explained to her, "There are girls in the class, too."
There were many girls in the class, such as Ji Sha - although they dressed like other boys, they didn't wear skirts and have shoulder-length hair like the girl in front of them.
"Those girls are not girls." She turned her head and looked at An Zhe: "Only those above the tenth floor are real girls."
An Zhe: "Why?"
"Don't you even know this?" she said.
An Zhe: "I don't know."
As for this human base, he really knew a lot.
For the first time, the girl's face showed an expression other than calmness. The corners of her lips curled up, and she said with a hint of pride: "Then you don't know about the Rose Declaration either."
An Zhe: "What is it?"
The girl turned around and leaned on the railing. The sun was faintly rising in the sky.
"Then you don't know about bacterial infection either?" she said.
An Zhe: "Yes."
As for the disaster that killed 90% of the world's human beings, she still knew about it.
"Only those with excellent genes can survive." She said.
An Zhe: “Yeah.”
For virulent mutant bacteria, human treatments are ineffective, and one can rely on innate immunity to escape infection. If one gene is destined to resist the disease, one can survive.
"Then, when those people came back to life, they found that there were not many living children born in the world." She reached out to comb her hair, paused for a while, as if she was organizing her words, and then said: "After the infection, those girls who came back to life had defects in their fertility. There are many who have more defects."
An Zhe did not speak, she wrinkled her nose and continued: "Scientists will do genetic tests on them. If the score is above 60, the function is completely lost. If the score is above 60, it is possible to give birth to normal children. Then, there was the "Rose Declaration". You are a boy, and the declaration has nothing to do with you."
An Zhe asked: "What is the declaration?"
"We just recited it." She said, "Do you want to listen?"
An Zhe: "Okay."
She recited in a calm tone: "More than 23,300 women with a fertility score of 60 or above in the fourth base of human beings vetoed the following declaration with zero votes: I voluntarily dedicate my life to the fate of mankind, accept genetic experiments, accept all forms of assisted reproduction, and fight for the continuation of the human race for the rest of my life." "
That's it." She said, "So I'm on the tenth floor, and you're above, now you know."
"Thank you." An Zhe said, "But you still have to be careful not to come to such a dangerous place."
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