Chapter 387: Flesh, Blood, Weakness (17) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update of Ten Thousand Thunders) [VIP]
Regarding this period of history, the content collected by the University of Michigan's archives is actually very general.
The information that Bai Jinshu found only said that the disaster befell the entire world and everyone's genes were contaminated after the san check, but it did not mention the details of the disaster, nor did it mention which creature from the starry sky caused the global sc.
She Mochu was no stranger to this kind of record that blurred a lot of key points. Most of the investigations at the University of Michigan required blurring out the details and only recording some general action texts to prevent the records of the action content from causing sanity checks among readers again.
But this is the first time I've seen something so general.
Regarding the first batch of experimenters uploaded to the data space, and then the K-type genes in their bodies gathered together to become artificial K-type evil gods, the description of the University of Michigan was simply "a newborn K-type evil god parasitic in the data network."
In order to resist this evil god that is parasitic on the Internet, the whole world cuts off all network supplies before the other party can absorb enough knowledge from the Internet to grow.
As for how this evil god was dealt with, the record is extremely brief. It only says that time was pressing and many students and professors from the University of Michigan volunteered to go to the front line to fight against him. They were also joined by various official and civilian investigation organizations. These brave investigators paid a heavy price and finally killed these K-type creatures.
There was no mention of the characteristics of this first C-type creature created by humans, how to deal with it, and there was not even an official list of sacrifices.
This is a bit too simplistic.
There is very little information about this period of time. However, the remaining records of the University of Michigan that were dispersed to various parts of the world to deal with some evil cults and K-related incidents after the catastrophe are quite detailed, just like the University of Michigan information that She Mochu remembered.
Bai Jinshu searched around desperately, and there was only this much information about this period in this archive room. It was so brief that it seemed like it was scientific material for the freshmen entering the University of Michigan, rather than a record of actions.
However, this situation has occurred before in She Mochu's memory.
If the records of a certain operation at the University of Michigan are unusually small, it can only mean two things. One is that the investigators who experienced this incident had died or disappeared before the record was written, and the details of the operation can only be supplemented by outsiders and some outsiders who had interactions with these investigators.
In this case, the details and key nodes of the incident will indeed be recorded vaguely. In order to avoid leaving any errors or assumptions in the records, everyone will only say the part that they are sure of, and when pieced together, the report will appear to be abnormally vague.
It seems that this matter only has a framework of cause and effect and a satisfactory solution, but lacks the flesh and blood inside.
Moreover, only a few of them were resolved satisfactorily. Most of the records written by the University of Michigan through questioning others ended with the death of all investigators and the failure of the investigation.
Based on the criticality of the situation described in these files, it is possible that all the investigators were wiped out.
The other possibility is much simpler.
——He has no authority.
The information recording these details must be in a more important room. As an outsider who is neither a student of the high school affiliated with Zone 08 Academy of Sciences nor a member of the action team of Zone 08 Academy of Sciences, these are the only information he can access by relying on his identity as a hybrid of the same type of creature.
Bai Jinshu gave up the idea of finding a detailed record of the disaster here. Since it was a rare trip here, he took the opportunity to look for other content that interested him in the archives.
For example, these students at the University of Michigan.
After that catastrophe, although various regions tried hard to suppress the fear in people's hearts, they threw all the problems to the gods in heaven and tried to restore life to its previous peace.
But obviously, in a world of K-system, knowing is the greatest danger.
Not everyone can have the same lofty consciousness that is substantially higher than the general public as the investigators, as well as the emotional stability and super group strength that are far stronger than ordinary people through years of training.
Not surprisingly, the disaster brought by the K-type creatures has ended, and the disaster brought by the K-type creatures has just begun.
Various "K-related events" began to occur around the world.
Some of them are true and some are false, but even if they are false, people can scare themselves and cause a few san checks. The public, who have no general knowledge about Czar-type creatures, rely on their own feelings to judge the seriousness of the incident most of the time. In other words, the messages will spread further and further, and finally become a "ghost evil god" that actually did not appear but caused multiple scs.
The emergence of this "ghost evil god" made it difficult for almost all investigators to cope with the situation, and the world was in chaos for a long time.
The turning point came when more and more investigators came to investigate the "Ghost Evil God".
By chance, an investigator discovered that this was no ordinary "ghost evil god". Although there were no C-type creatures appearing from the beginning of this incident, there seemed to be a very special existence among the people who experienced this incident.
And just like that, the first record of a genetic mutation appeared in the archives of the University of Michigan.
[I guess it's just like in genetics, although the witnesses of the catastrophe carry the genes of the resistant family, these genes will not have any effect on them, but when carriers combine with carriers, they may be passed on to their children.]
The investigator's handwriting was hurried, and he used some niche European language. Bai Jinshu couldn't understand his original text, but he understood the translation below.
【According to our statistics, this extra C gene is more like a recessive gene that mutates randomly. There is no inheritance rule, and we don't know in which generation it will mutate, but once it mutates, it will become dominant. Dominant genes do not appear at birth. Most people have to go through a latent period of fifteen to seventeen years. Moreover, this mutation is not continuous, and the offspring of the mutant may not necessarily be dominant. This gene is more like sleeping in the deepest part of the blood, randomly selecting the same unlucky person to give a big gift.】
Bai Jinshu speculated that the fact that humans have given up natural gestation and chosen gestation chambers is also influenced by this aspect.
During the screening of fertilized eggs, the in vitro gestation chamber can maximize the screening of genes with a higher possibility of mutation, thereby minimizing the possibility of mutation in the newborn fetus.
The investigator who first discovered this incident also brought back the first unlucky person with a dominant C-line gene. The records said that his face looked like a patient with bird face syndrome, but unlike the patients, he might really be a bird.
From the side of his neck to his ribs, there were inappropriately small hairs distributed throughout his body. His weight was far lighter than that of a normal adult male. Upon examination, it was found that all his bones were hollow.
But this unlucky guy is almost immune to most of the anti-biotic creatures that would cause sc to ordinary people, and his physical fitness is far higher than the normal standard.
It was after this that the University of Michigan began to intentionally look for people whose K-line gene mutations had become dominant and became investigators, that is, the students of the University of Michigan.
According to records, people with these gene mutations are extremely easy to identify. Not only do they have faces that are no different from ordinary people, but more obviously they all have a very strange attraction.
This kind of attraction has nothing to do with realistic conditions such as appearance, figure, family background, personality and economic ability. It is also not the general attraction with positive emotions such as liking or curiosity that comes from brain thinking, but a strange ability to "catch people's eyes".
They seem to be born to be the focus in the crowd. People will pay attention to them unconsciously, and most of the time, people don't know why they behave this way.
This is probably why the University of Michigan gradually became a school that only accepts mixed-race students.
These students cannot survive in normal society after their genes manifest, but compared to normal people, they have higher SC resistance and some abilities that normal humans do not have, making them more suitable to be investigators.
However, compared to the normal investigators who only had to track down some evil cult summons, or suicidal artists, and explorers who went to the deep mountains and forests and got possessed by some demons and had to bring back some statues that looked wrong to the city, these mixed-race investigators were facing a more severe crisis.
Bai Jinshu searched through the archives for a while and soon found out why those items seemed useless to him.
[The creatures of the scepter system are changing. The old seal is no longer the only item that can make them react. 】
This record was originally written hundreds of years ago. Bai Jinshu pulled up the timeline in his mind and found that this time should be just before the underground was divided into nine areas.
There was a long period of missing records after this. When the next record with a timestamp appeared, the underground had been split into nine areas, and the University of Michigan was also split into nine parts. The University of Michigan in each area took advantage of this split to transform itself into an "Academy of Sciences" and was responsible for the safety of the area.
According to the contents of these records, they should have found a new way to deal with the K-type creatures during the missing period, but it is not known whether it was because the University of Mithril was split into nine parts, or because the war did cause the loss of some data. The specific process and content of finding this method were not recorded.
Or maybe he doesn't have enough authority to view the detailed information, so he can only see this censored version.
After closing the last piece of information, Bai Jinshu leaned against the information shelf and subconsciously felt that something was wrong from She Mochu's sixth sense.
This sense of unrest flashed through his brain, and before he could think further, his sixth sense popped up a new crisis.
It seemed as if someone was secretly watching him.
Bai Jinshu turned his head suddenly and met several extremely embarrassed faces who did not expect him to turn his heads suddenly.
Seven or eight young students were crowded at the door, pushing and shoving each other for a long time, and finally pushed out a girl with pointy ears like elf ears.
"Uh..." The elf-eared girl's ears turned red with embarrassment, and she stumbled when she spoke, "Hi? Are you the senior in the photo in the recruitment advertisement?"
What recruitment advertisement?
Bai Jinshu subconsciously wanted to reject it, but before he could blurt out this sentence, he suddenly remembered that he did have some recruitment advertisement.
The advertisement that Gu Qiang helped him to find Huai Jiamu.
"…It's me," he paused, put down the information in his hand, and frowned slightly, "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"
The Michigan University professor asked Gu Qiang to withdraw the advertisement?
“No, no, no, there’s no problem!” The elf-eared girl looked even more embarrassed, and her voice got smaller and smaller. “We’re just… curious and came to see it.”
"Senior, you passed by the Swan Lake outside before and were seen by Grover. He said he wanted to come over and take a look!" A short boy with chestnut hair next to him quickly passed the blame to another high-nosed boy next to him.
The boy with the high nose bridge called Grover was also embarrassed: "I saw you passing by, and Qiu Xianjun happened to be curious whether there was really such a person in our school, so I brought her to see it."
Qiu Xianjun is probably the girl with elf ears.
Her ears suddenly turned red: "Yuanyuan told me that she had never seen this senior in school!"
"I'm only in my first year... and this isn't something that anyone in the school forum has ever seen!"
Everyone in this circle was passing the buck back and forth, and no one wanted to admit that it was their idea to hide at the door of the archive room and secretly watch other people, which made Bai Jinshu laugh.
"Alright, alright," Bai Jinshu put the file back where it was. "I'm definitely not a student at Zone 08's higher education institution. I came to Zone 08 from another area to investigate something."
He was smart this time and didn't mention zone 02.
Mentioning this area seemed to cause unnecessary reactions from many residents of zone 08. Bai Jinshu wanted to get some information out of these students, so he naturally did not intend to mention this area, which would only increase the gap between them.
“Is that so…” The students looked at each other awkwardly. The short boy laughed awkwardly and pointed outside. “Well… then we’ll leave first and not disturb you from looking up information!”
"No need," the senior standing in the archive room glanced at each of their faces and said casually, "This is my first time in zone 08. I'm not familiar with the school. Can I ask you to help show me around?"
"Then don't... OK, OK," the short boy was hit several times by the girl behind him, and quickly changed the topic, "Where are you going, senior?"
"Can you introduce me to the underground university?" In this secret university full of students with many abnormal mixed-blood bodies, Bai Jinshu's eyes opened a lot unconsciously, unlike when he was in the outside world, when he always lowered his eyes as if he was not excited. "This is my first time to come to an underground university. The sky simulation technology here is very good, and it is exactly the same as the sky on the ground."
This immediately opened up everyone's conversation.
Several students started talking at once.
"Yes, yes, this is the simulated environment screen developed by our Zone 08 Academy of Sciences," someone said enthusiastically, "This screen is very expensive and cannot be fully promoted. There are a total of 37 floors underground, and only our floor is fully covered. The other underground areas are provided by the region."
"The environmental simulation here is a one-to-one imitation of the real weather on the ground," the elf-eared girl Qiu Xianjun added in a low voice, "For example, it is cloudy on the ground right now."
Bai Jinshu and his fellow students walked out of the archive room, looked up, and saw quite a few clouds in the sky.
The camera was moved by the property manager, and the barrage also saw the sky.
【This weather is so real. 】
[If Gu Qiang hadn’t told them that this was an environmental simulation, I wouldn’t have been able to tell that this was a big screen.]
[In fact, it is still visible. The sense of space is a little insufficient, and the sky seems a little low. But if you don’t say it’s fake, I might think it’s an illusion caused by the altitude. ]
[I can't even tell that the sky is a little low, I just think the clouds are so real. ]
【This sunlight is also very real. 】
"That sun," the short boy just happened to say this, "is actually a light source stuffed in the middle of the screen. However, the light emitted by this sun is a one-to-one imitation of ultraviolet light. There is no difference between basking in this sun and basking in the sun outside."
Bai Jinshu put his hand over his forehead and looked at the sun.
Even the temperature was comparable. When he walked on the campus of the University of Michigan, he could feel the sunlight above his head and the slight warmth enveloping his whole body.
"Senior, do you want to sit on the lawn for a while?"
On the small hill in the distance, there were a few students lying on the ground with books and materials, reviewing. Apart from their slightly inhuman features, they were no different from the Michigan University where She Mochu had lived for seven years.
He had also walked through the dense shade of trees like this, lowered his eyelids in the hurrying crowd, and ran to the lawn to slack off in the name of reviewing while holding materials.
The lawns at Mida are regularly maintained and mowed. When you lie on them right after they are mowed, you can smell the fresh fragrance of the plants after the grass leaves have been cut.
Choose an afternoon with good sunshine and no heavy schoolwork, and you can sleep here until the sun sets. If you don’t want to be discovered by classmates and professors who come to catch you working, you can climb up a tree in the middle of the UM lawn.
The leaves are dense. She Mochu has slept here for seven years and has already developed a stable sleeping posture. He can spend an entire afternoon peacefully relaxing on a branch that would fall off at the slightest shake.
This place had nothing in common with the Michigan University in She Mochu's memory, but the details made him subconsciously feel familiar and relaxed.
The younger classmates around him probably thought it was too embarrassing to be caught peeking, so they actively tried to change the subject and move on from the incident. It was natural for Bai Jinshu to ask a few questions about the contents of the pill.
This is not a secret, but it seems that this thing is only for the members of the action team. The younger students don’t know much about it. They only know that this thing is a daily medicine that will be provided after joining the action team.
It was probably like a rite of passage. When they had enough strength to join the action team and obtained the pill, they would become qualified graduates of the University of Michigan.
As for the methods of dealing with new types of creatures that were not described in detail in the archives, the students told Bai Jinshu that they had not yet come into contact with them. They only knew that these things worked, but they did not know the principles. If they wanted to know the principles, they might have to go to the Academy of Sciences to ask.
Bai Jinshu nodded thoughtfully.
It seems that it is not that he does not have enough authority to see it, but that this principle is likely to contain some contaminated information and is not harmless to people like the old seal, so even investigators cannot know it.
"By the way," he recalled what the others had said before, "about that ad, it's very popular right now?"
"Super high!" the short boy said in an exaggerated tone, "Senior, you don't know, the Internet has exploded!"
She Mochu's face is indeed very lethal.
I hope that when the internet explodes, Huai Jiamu, who is somewhere unknown, can see him.
Thinking of this, Bai Jinshu stretched out his hand: "Can I borrow your phone to take a look?"
The junior students were very forthright. They were all teenagers, and they were much more excited to discuss gossip than to introduce the school. Bai Jinshu easily took the phone from a student, swiped the other person's account and looked at the relevant discussions:
[What the hell is this? A new star?]
[This is a recruitment advertisement for a higher education institution affiliated to the Zone 08 Academy of Sciences. ]
[You, the Academy of Sciences, are eating so well without telling anyone? ! ! ]
[My stereotype of the Academy of Sciences being a bunch of white-haired grandpas and grandmas with PhDs was instantly shattered.]
[No, shouldn't the focus be on the fact that this is a recruitment advertisement? ]
[Oh, he did recruit me. I really want to go, but the problem is that the Science and Technology Academy won’t accept me? ]
[I was wondering why I don’t see handsome guys in my daily life. It turns out they all went to the Science and Technology Institute. ]
[I called the teacher to ask about the enrollment details. The teacher asked me how old I was. I said I was 20, and he said I was too old.]
[Laughing, didn’t you know that the students of the Science and Technology College are only teenagers of fifteen or sixteen years old? ]
【I really don’t know.】
【And the Science and Technology Institute only accepts handsome men and beautiful women. 】
[I testify that the beautiful girl next door to me was suddenly taken away by the Academy of Sciences one day...]
The following discussion turned to why the students of the College of Science and Technology are so good-looking.
Not getting any useful information from these discussions, Bai Jinshu closed the interface and remembered that these people had mentioned the internal forum of the University of Michigan before, so he asked casually: "Can I borrow your phone to check out the internal forum?"
"This..." Everyone looked at each other awkwardly, and Grover, with a high nose, whispered, "Why don't we just stop looking at it?"
After he said that, Bai Jinshu became curious: "Why?"
"Because..." Everyone smiled awkwardly, "Senior, are your eyes okay?"
"Eyes?" Bai Jinshu didn't understand. "What's wrong with the eyes?"
"Well... actually we're here because you have a single eye," the short boy next to him continued, "Not many people on the forum paid attention to your ad. Everyone is actually discussing whether there is something wrong with your eyes."
As both of them were mixed-bloods of the K-type, their senses were much sharper. To normal people, the one with the vertical pupil in She Mochu's eyes was abnormal, but in their opinion, it was the normal pupil that was not right.
"Senior, if you haven't applied for a quota in your area, we can help you apply for a few new ones." Qiu Xianjun realized that this topic might be hurtful, so she quickly added.
"Apply for a new one?" Bai Jinshu asked curiously.
"In our zone 08, since there are no special parts that have been completely mutated or lost in battle, we can apply for some artificial gene organs to complete them. Our medical care is very advanced." Several students seemed to regard him as the more backward zone 09 and zone 10 people, and hurriedly introduced him actively, "This way, you can maintain your own mutation state and it will not affect your actions."
"Senior, if you don't have this technology, I can help you apply for it!" Qiu Xianjun said actively.
"Her grandfather is from the Academy of Sciences!" someone said rudely.
"...Well," Qiu Xianjun responded a little embarrassedly, and added in a low voice, "Senior, it's dangerous for you to have only one eye like this. The less alienated part you have, the greater the danger."
Although their understanding of danger was different, what they said was indeed not wrong. She Mochu always felt a little uneasy because he was missing an eye.
Bai Jinshu touched the normal eye socket, seeming to be thinking about something.
The barrage instantly filled up:
【!!! New eyes! 】
【Great! There is also this harvest! 】
[Hurry up and agree to her! ]
[Thank you, kind person whose face can't be seen in a mosaic. ]
【Michigan University is indeed the mother's home of the Lord.】
【? What is the Lord's mother's home? 】
[Reporting the Lord's hometown, there is a typo. 】
[How can you make a mistake? An initial letter N and an initial letter L, they are not in the same row on the keyboard, not to mention there are two characters in the middle, don't quibble. ]
[Okay, everyone, stop arguing. For me, the University of Michigan will always be my master's home.]
【unbelievable. 】
[Security, is the security here? Kick She Mochu's dog out.]
The screen involved himself, and Bai Jinshu was not polite: "That's a bother to you, but I'm not from zone 08, so applying for this won't take up your resources, right?"
"It's okay!" Qiu Xianjun smiled, "We are all investigators. Our first lesson is to protect the people and help each other. The technology in zone 08 is more advanced, and we have an obligation to help colleagues who need help more."
"Although..." she added bitterly, "I haven't graduated yet, so we are not colleagues."
"Do you want to be an investigator in the action team in the future?" Bai Jinshu felt that this girl's personality was very similar to Shi Liqun, except that she talked more than Shi Liqun. He also wondered if she had the other person's extremely shy [fear of insufficient firepower].
"Well, but my grandfather thinks I'm more suitable for a research and development position," Qiu Xianjun said a little depressedly, "Actually, I'd rather go to the ground and be part of the action team to help others."
"After all, although the underground is the same as the ground, it's boring to stay there for a long time. We all want to go out, but after being transferred to the R&D position, we can't go up often, and we can't go on missions with the action team." The short boy added in a dragging tone, "I will graduate in half a year, and I can go back to live on the ground. Oh, Qiu Xianjun, don't be too sad, the action team is very dangerous..."
The boasting in these words was so strong that the short boy got several cold stares. Grover, who seemed to be his good friend, grabbed his throat and the two rolled into a ball: "What the hell is this Versailles!"
"Senior, what kind of prosthetic do you want to apply for? What is your genetic hybrid creature? Is it a snake?" Qiu Xianjun ignored the classmates who were rolling in a ball and introduced seriously, "According to our current genetic prosthetic technology, the eyeballs that can be created are probably not normal eyes. Senior, if you want a matching one, I can take a photo of you and ask my grandfather if I can make the same one."
"Can it be customized?" Bai Jinshu really didn't expect to have such a special gain from this project.
"Logically, it's not possible," Qiu Xianjun muttered, "but I'm related to him, so it won't be a problem for my grandfather to do one when he's free."
"Thank you then," Bai Jinshu said without hesitation, "Sorry for the trouble. I will personally come to thank Mr. Qiu some other day."
By the way, I'll go to the Academy of Sciences to find out the details of the new weapon.
It was perfect. By the way, I was able to get in touch with the Academy of Sciences and have the opportunity to do it again.
She Mochu's face is eye-catching enough when he looks lazy. When he looks serious occasionally, it almost makes the eyes of the students around him dazzled.
They were all young students who had not yet graduated, and they could not hide their thoughts. Many of them were too embarrassed to keep saying it was nothing.
They really don't think it's a big deal.
Because they were going to get their own customized eyeballs, Bai Jinshu and Qiu Xianjun added each other's contact information and asked the other party to take a few detailed pictures of the silver-white vertical pupil in the sun and sent them to their grandfather.
After a few minutes, Qiu Xianjun nodded: "Grandpa agreed and said he would make one for you when he has time."
"Okay, then please." There were no new clues in MIT University that needed further investigation. Bai Jinshu was just trying to find an excuse to say that he was leaving when he received a new message.
It was sent by Gu Qiang.
[Senior, it seems that the person you are looking for has been found. ]
Bai Jinshu paused and stood up from the grass.
"I suddenly have something to do," he raised the phone in his hand, "I'll leave first."
Huai Jiamu is here so soon?
The author has something to say:
When I was writing "Those Who Left Me", it seems that Bao asked if Xiaochu's eyes would come back. Hantang said at the time that they would come back in the future, in this copy.
I am indeed the biological mother. The plot of Mi Da giving Xiao Chu's eyes was even determined earlier than the core mechanism (Pans together)
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