Chapter 396: Flesh, Blood, Weakness (26) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update of 37.2w nutrient solution) [VIP]
Everyone looked at the only native of this world present.
"What's wrong?" The investor was puzzled. "Why are you looking at me? I feel nervous when you look at me like that..."
"You don't have any response?" Ming Qingrong blinked, "Regarding the matter of 'your world is likely to be controlled by someone'?"
“No…?” The investor also blinked, “What does this have to do with me…”
"I'm just a small business owner," he said sincerely, "I'm neither a rebel nor the leader of District 9. Even if someone wants to manipulate the development of world history, it has nothing to do with me, right? Do they still think highly of my small company?"
That's true.
【What a realistic guy. 】
[That's true. What does the fight between gods have to do with him? His only choice is to join or watch. Now he joins but doesn't want to chat, so he can only watch.]
[My friend chose "join" between joining and watching, and directly joined the exploration team to see who was fighting. ]
Several members of the exploration team present fell into a suspicious silence.
At present, it seems that this mysterious man who is manipulating the development of history in the unknown space is only interested in a small number of people at the top of the pyramid. He tries to overthrow the old rule by supporting rebel organizations and support the emergence of new rulers.
If there is anyone here who needs to worry about this the most, it's probably the poets.
Huai Jiamu spoke as expected: "It is too early for the current rebel organization to completely overthrow the nine districts and become the new ruler."
It's like asking a kindergarten preschooler to prove the Goldbach conjecture.
The limit that the rebel organization can do now is to mess up zone 08, destroy their environmental bionic system, and at the same time, let as many people as possible know that the members of the Academy of Sciences action team will turn into C-type creatures and prevent them from going crazy.
"Then it will take hundreds of years to reach this level?" Si Panxuan interrupted.
"No," Huai Jiamu shook his head. "If things continue as they are now, the rebel organization actually has no chance of disrupting the existing world order and successfully becoming the next ruler."
His words were so direct and sharp that he didn't seem to be talking about the organization he belonged to.
But he was not wrong. Although they were both rebel organizations, the gap in strength between them and the other nine districts was too big.
There are nine zones from zone 02 to zone 10, and the level of technological development ranges from high to low. The current rebel organizations are not even as good as the last zone 10. They live in eternal night all year round and survive on some old technologies left over from the abandoned military base. Although their living standards are much better than other wanderers, it is a fantasy to want to compare technological development and equipment with those living in the safe zone of zone 9.
If someone had intentionally fostered this rebel group and wanted history to repeat itself, they would not have been unaware of this.
"So under what circumstances can a rebel organization become the next ruler..." Before Zhang Lu could finish his muttering, he heard She Mochu next to him say it bluntly.
"war."
"A war between nine regions," Huai Jiamu added thoughtfully, "If we hadn't entered here, the next step of the rebel organization would indeed be to provoke a war between regions."
According to the current progress of the rebel organization, even if they succeed in spreading the truth in all nine areas, it will not cause any troublesome turmoil. After all, the core technology is in the hands of the Academy of Sciences and the governors, and there are considerable gaps between the nine areas. Navigation between areas still requires the use of aircraft.
In this situation, if you want the party that is originally at a disadvantage to become the final winner, you must first consume the power between the nine areas so that they have an opportunity to take advantage.
"Among the nine regions..." Zhang Lu suddenly woke up, "There are already contradictions and discrimination chains?!"
Once a problem is discovered, the remaining clues will be pulled out one after another:
[These nine regions have had countless frictions and conflicts over the past few hundred years due to uneven resource distribution and geographical location. Any of these conflicts could become the fuse of war.]
[It is not happening now because it is unnecessary and the conflict has not yet reached that point.]
[The birth of the rebel organization was intentional, with the goal of allowing wanderers to enter zone 10 and discover the lies in the nine areas. Other lies in this world don't matter, but those related to Crimson creatures will definitely cause an uproar.]
[Perhaps they were behind the attack on zone 08? Thinking further back, the first poet destroyed the aircraft of the governor's son in zone 10 with the help of the other party. Then when he entered zone 10 and discovered the lies here, he wrote a poem that spread throughout zone 9. Was there this unknown existence behind these events?]
[But if the history of this world is being manipulated by someone, doesn't that mean that the current rebellion organization has developed to this extent intentionally by the other party? Then what is the purpose of them repeatedly manipulating this world to repeat similar history? ]
"Then why do they repeat this process?" On the screen, the exploration team members were also thinking about this question.
If this unknown existence is trying to control those in power and replace them with someone else once they try to get out of control, then wouldn't it be much easier to choose this replacement from within the region?
Take for example the undercurrents and ongoing power struggles in zone 07. If the current governor of zone 07 is out of its control, causing it to want to replace him with a more suitable governor, then wouldn't it be much easier and simpler to choose the families that are trying to seize power in zone 07 than to choose a rebel organization that is far away and has not yet accumulated enough strength?
Why go through all this trouble?
Moreover, this was not a temporary decision to support the rebel organization. This behavior started at least several hundred years ago. Calculating the time, it was shortly after the nine regions were established.
The problem cannot possibly lie with these nine governors.
Even if the dragon slayer eventually becomes an evil dragon, the evil dragons today are the descendants of countless generations of dragon slayers. Not long after District 9 was established, these nine people were not necessarily the rulers who worked diligently and conscientiously to develop the region.
Otherwise, they would not have established that rebel organization and bravely overthrown the rule of the previous generation.
"War is costly and will lead to a reduction in safe and habitable areas in the world," Si Panxuan said critically, "What is the point of war other than causing pain?"
"If..." Bai Jin stopped speaking halfway.
"If what?" Everybody look over here.
“What if…” Under the gaze of a group of people, the young man with vertical pupils showed an indescribable expression on his face, and then he continued, “What if their purpose is to cause pain?”
"Heavenly people," he said, pausing for a few seconds before adding, "In the relevant exploration results of the previous six groups, they all mentioned a point of view, that is, they believe that the heavenly people in this world hate the underground people and want to make their lives worse than death."
After entering here, they never saw any trace of the people in heaven, so naturally they forgot this sentence.
But thinking about it at this time, this sentence, which was full of personal emotional catharsis and directly faced the creatures of the K-type, actually took on another creepy meaning.
There is an omnipresent existence watching the world, like a child squatting in front of an ant nest and watching the ants moving with great interest. It casually and easily brings a pot of water from home and pours it forward, thus deciding the fate of this group of ants.
And they happened to be the group of ants that were affected by the random splash.
*
Bai Jinshu sat in front of the study in the investor's house, waiting for the other party's butler to find all the information about the governor of zone07 for him.
Behind him, the remaining six exploration team members had been discussing for dozens of minutes and were determined to continue the discussion, and no one could convince anyone else.
Wei Ye and Ming Qingrong are more inclined to believe that the people in heaven are the first group of experimenters whose consciousness was uploaded before the disaster, while Zhang Lu insists that this may just be a nickname and reference, and the real people in heaven are most likely some foreign gods who are bored.
"Humans are like ants to the old gods of the Krishna world," she repeated the most famous metaphor in the Krishna world. "In their eyes, perhaps humans' summons, humans' beliefs, and humans' resistance are no different from ants crawling on the ground. Their forms of life are different."
“If a group of ants dragged a piece of bread crumbs to the corner of your house every day and arranged them to form your name, and one day you happened to pass by this corner and found the pile of bread crumbs and the ants that carried them, then one of the ant priests would think that this was a miracle and that their ritual had finally summoned the gods. When you discovered that these bread crumbs arranged to form your name were actually piled up by a group of ants, you might take a whole loaf of bread from the kitchen to share with them, or you might just raise your leg and crush them to death.”
"But it's obvious that the person in heaven who controls history now is not an alien god who doesn't understand what the ants are doing?" Ming Qingrong argued, "You would be surprised that the ants arranged your name, but would you inexplicably support Ant A in the Ant School to defeat Ant B? You can't even tell which ant is which ant. Only ants can tell ants apart."
If someone wants to gain happiness from the suffering of ants, he or she will most likely choose to burn down the ant nest, rather than going to great lengths to figure out what the dispute is between the ants and then provoke the dispute between them and let the ants kill each other.
Only ants can understand them from their perspective and manipulate their behavior to achieve their goals.
"Please," Jia Li lay beside him, "Can you change the metaphor? I'm afraid of ants."
Si Panxuan, sitting on the side, urged: "Brother, can your childhood friend who works at the Academy of Sciences take some of the Academy's items out? For example, their equipment or something?"
"Do you want equipment?" The investor thought for a moment, "I have quite a few that he gave me. If you want, why don't you just pick them from me?"
"That's not what I meant," Si Panxuan thought for a moment and decided not to get involved in the dispute between her cousin and her teammates. She also didn't want to go with She Mochu to look up information, so she had to find something to do on her own like a poor student with no tutor to supervise her and who had to write a thesis on her own. "I want to know what the manufacturing principles of these equipment are."
She remembered Shemochu mentioned that according to the records of the Academy of Sciences, the K-type creatures had changed a long time ago, and ordinary old seals could no longer cause harm to them, so the University of Michigan developed new countermeasures.
This new countermeasure is the "useless" equipment in She Mochu's eyes, and the principle behind it is still a mystery.
"How it's made..." The investor's face showed a trace of confusion, "It's no use asking him about this. In fact, he doesn't know either."
"Isn't your childhood friend from the Academy of Sciences?" Si Panxuan was puzzled. "Or is he not responsible for this part of the content in the Academy of Sciences? What does the Academy of Sciences do?"
"It's not irresponsible," the investor thought for a moment and explained, "it's just that these equipments were not made by the Academy of Sciences."
As soon as he said this, the three people who were arguing behind him stopped arguing and came over. Wei Ye blurted out: "Then what are these things made of?"
"These are all handed down items," the investor said, roughly explaining what he knew. "These equipments seem to have been manufactured by the University of Michigan before the split. Now the Academy of Sciences no longer has the technical means to manufacture these things, so they can only continuously recycle the previous equipment for reuse."
As the exploration team members had heard when they were members of the mobile team, most of the equipment they used was inherited from their predecessors, and most of it was retrieved from the dead at the site of the disaster.
"Since these equipments are not manufactured by the Academy of Sciences, what can they do now?" Ming Qingrong asked.
"Study the large-scale defense devices in each area?" The investor thought for a moment, "For example, the old rain in zone 08, the disinfection lamp in zone 07, and the red fog in zone 06 are all defense devices for the entire area."
"Old Rain was created based on the Old Seal," Bai Jinshu suddenly interrupted, "So what are the disinfection lamps and red mist you mentioned?"
"It should be made based on the old seal, right? I'm not sure about this," the investor thought for a moment and simply opened the communication panel, "I'll ask my friend."
"What's wrong, She Mochu? Is there a problem?" Si Panxuan didn't expect that the topic she casually brought up would attract everyone, and asked awkwardly, "Is there a problem with Jiu Yu?"
"Hmm," Bai Jinshu frowned, "I suddenly discovered that the records of the Academy of Sciences are contradictory."
In other words, some ominous clues can be seen just from their records.
The archives said that some abnormalities had occurred in the creatures of the K-series, so the University of Michigan found a new way to deal with it. However, among the nine areas now, the old seal is still the one that plays a role in preventing the entire area. So who is this method used to expel?
Expel the "new Ke creatures" whose existence is unknown?
Or expel these mixed-race people who were accepted as students by the Science and Technology Academy?
"There's a big problem with this equipment!" He walked away from the piles of data devices, ruthlessly abandoning the old butler and servants who were still working hard to move the equipment. He quickly walked behind the investor and grabbed his shoulders. "Did you ask? How are the disinfection lamps here made?"
"No... not yet," the investor turned around and was frightened by She Mochu's almost confrontational face and vertical pupils, "I... damn it."
It's really a bit scary.
Watching it on the screen is completely different from seeing it in reality. He now understands why so many people were stunned when looking at She Mochu's face. That was actually not a kind of daze.
It is the process of the brain slowly recovering after suffering a shock that exceeds one's worldview and comprehension. During this process, if the person who received the shock cannot take his eyes off She Mochu's face that can be said to have broken through the dimension, then he will be in this state before She Mochu takes the initiative to leave his sight.
Fortunately, She Mochu himself seemed to notice his excessive excitement and loss of composure. He immediately lowered his eyes, took a few steps back, and lowered his eyes on his own initiative.
The unlucky investor who faced the impact took several minutes to recover and said weakly: "Lord... Lord, next time... don't get so close to me."
A lemon essence flashed across the barrage:
[? You got an advantage, but you're still acting cute, right? ]
[You should be so lucky to be able to meet the Lord in the three-dimensional world, but you still complain that the Lord is too close to you. 】
[Hehe, who was it that said don’t get too close while everyone was stunned, hehe, who was it that couldn’t take their eyes away just now, hehe, I’m not jealous, I’m not jealous, I’m meiyuqboyf……]
[(Watching the live broadcast in the dark)(Biting the handkerchief in a distorted manner)(Takes out a lemon slowly)(Licks it)(So sour)(Licks it)(So sour)(Licks it)(So sour)]
[How to do it! My ancestors who have passed away for many years, please come back! Please show your spirit to my ancestors! Please make smoke rise from my ancestral graves! Let the Lord come to my world next time! ]
"You don't need to call me master, just call me She Mochu," Bai Jinshu, who had calmed down a little, raised his eyelids and confirmed that the other party had also returned to normal before speaking, "So did you ask?"
"Not yet... He may not be able to reply in a short time." The investor searched his mind for words and finally decided to call Chu brother with everyone else. "Brother Chu, if you see it with your own eyes, can you determine what this thing is made of?"
"Sure." Bai Jinshu answered immediately.
"That's easy!" The other party breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at his watch. "In two hours, the disinfection lights will be turned on in zone 07."
"Something happened in zone 08 a few days ago, and the remaining eight zones have entered a defensive state. Our zone 07's full-area Cthulhu defense device is a kind of laser. Because its color is similar to a disinfection lamp, we call it a disinfection lamp. Its scientific name is a detection system. In the defensive state, it scans the entire city once in the morning and once in the evening."
There are still two hours until this light is turned on again.
"Let's not talk about the disinfection lamp for now," Bai Jinshu glanced at the outside world, "and continue talking about the equipment."
"Which equipment?" The investor was at a loss for a moment, "How about I bring one to you, Brother Chu, so you can have a look?"
"No need," Bai Jinshu frowned slightly, "I've seen it."
This thing is of no use to him.
It was precisely because it was of no use that he realized something was wrong.
The past three days were extremely chaotic for both him and the other members of the exploration team. Many clues were piled up in the corners of their memories and had to be brought up by someone before they could be re-examined. As a result, he forgot about the issues regarding the equipment.
According to the information they obtained after entering here and what was revealed by police officer Desmond, these equipments are circulated in the mobile team and the police force. Most of them are obtained by inheriting them from the dead at the second contact scene. In zone 08, the identity of the heir who obtains the relics is given priority by the next life of the deceased. There must be no such rule in zone 07, so these things are most likely distributed according to the rules.
These equipments were inherited from the dead at the scene of the K-series incident. What were the K-series creatures that the dead faced? They were hybrids of the Academy of Sciences action team. That means these things are of no use at all in blocking the K-series creatures.
As long as these things are of some use to She Mochu, they will not be completely useless to those mixed-bloods.
Based on these clues, we can infer that these equipments are useless to the hybrids, and naturally useless to the creatures that the hybrids have transformed into. Wearing them will not increase the chance of survival, so the question is -
What's up with Desmond's brooch?
"Could it be that Desmond... uh, misjudged the situation?" Zhang Lu himself did not believe his own guess. "In fact, he escaped death not because of the brooch?"
It must be impossible.
If this thing has never shown to be effective, why has it been passed down among the mobile squad and the police force for so many generations and used for so many years?
So it must be useful, and Desmond's view is the view of most people.
"Since this thing is ostensibly designed to defend against C-type creatures, and the C-type creatures are controlled and deployed by the Academy of Sciences," Si Panxuan said slowly, "then is it possible that when facing a C-type attack, who will live and who will die is actually also controlled?"
Only if the person wearing the brooch survives every time will people believe that the brooch is useful.
If, as the investor's friend said, this equipment was not manufactured by the Academy of Sciences but passed down from generation to generation, then it is impossible that the Academy of Sciences had tampered with the equipment.
The only ones who could have been tampered with were the students who had been transformed into Ke-type creatures.
"Then how do they control these mixed-race students?" the investor interjected.
That's the problem.
Now everyone knows that this equipment has no real effect on restraining creatures, so how do they identify the wearer and the non-wearer? You can't ask all the students in the Science Academy to recognize all the equipment and then tell them to avoid it when they see it, right?
If it could really be avoided, why would someone die with their equipment, leaving it as a relic?
"Oh my god..." Zhang Lu held his head, "Why are there so many questions?"
Where do so many puzzles come from in this world?
"Why don't I wait for my friend to get back to me?" the investor said weakly, "But he may not know, and even if he knows, it may not be true."
"It's okay," Jia Li comforted him, "We've already received enough fake news. He only needs to state the objective facts. He doesn't need to tell us the principles behind it. We can infer the relationship between the mixed-race students and these equipment ourselves."
After all, this friend also graduated from the Academy of Sciences. Without knowing whether the other party is fully aware of what the Academy of Sciences has done, it would not be good for them to ask too much.
There was still more than an hour before the next disinfection light was turned on, so everyone had a meal and waited on the balcony as if they were going sightseeing.
——Except She Mochu.
In order to prevent the light from causing any unknown harm to him, She Mochu was placed in a place in the room where the laser could not reach.
When the time came, the disinfection light in zone 07 started scanning on time, just as the investors said.
"Is that the thing?" Zhang Lu asked, pointing at a patch of red in the distance.
"Yes, that's it," the investor confirmed.
Unlike the old rain in zone 08, the disinfection lamp in zone 07 is just as its name suggests. It is a laser device that scans down from above the city, just like a copier scans the paper being copied. This thing scans the entire city from top to bottom.
It seems to be much more advanced than the continuous old rain in zone 08. No wonder there is a lot of discrimination between these areas.
It also looks like it has much higher lethality than the old rain in zone 08.
Two red lasers in the sky scanned the city alternately. The entire zone 07 looked even more futuristic under these lasers, almost like a three-dimensional city being printed by a 3D printer.
The laser scanned back and forth about seven or eight times. When it reached their location, Bai Jinshu reached out and probed.
Still a burning sensation.
This thing was very effective in giving him a slight burning sensation. Compared to the old rain that dissolved the old seal into the water, he guessed that this light was most likely shining on the city through something related to the old seal.
But the specific details still need to be studied.
"Brother Chu, how is it? Is it an old seal?" Everyone turned around and asked.
"It's an old seal," Bai Jinshu judged, "It has a similar effect to the old rain."
In other words, these area-wide anti-biological devices are essentially still using the old seals.
This makes the principle of the equipment even more confusing. Even if this thing is controlled by humans, how can one control a creature of the restraint system?
"Could it be that person from heaven again?" Zhang Lu asked with a headache.
When faced with a problem, the argument between her, Wei Ye and Ming Qingrong about the Heavenly Man did not lead to an answer, so both sides had to temporarily stop arguing and unanimously call this thing "the Heavenly Man".
Anyway, there must be some alien creature watching them now. Hopefully, this creature hasn't noticed that they are making inquiring speculations about him.
"Then what is it doing this for?" Si Panxuan asked casually, "Is it to create pain?"
"Why not?" Bai Jinshu suddenly continued, "Suppose, you have an item that, in your concept, can repel C-type creatures as long as you wear it, then what will you think when you encounter C-type creatures?"
"I'm safe, or rather, I'm safer than my companions." Si Pan answered immediately.
"At this time, your companions are safe, but you are attacked by a C-type creature. What would you think?"
"Despair? Unbelievable?" Si Panxuan guessed two things. "So the existence of this thing is to make the wearer feel pain? What's the purpose?"
"It's for nothing," Bai Jinshu retracted his gaze and sorted out the clues about this mysterious equipment. "Suppose, it is for this purpose?"
The goal of [people in heaven want to make life on earth worse than death].
What they have done, their manipulation of world history, their guidance of the actions of the Academy of Sciences, their support for rebel organizations, and their packaging of mysterious "equipment".
Everything is done to make people feel despair and live in endless pain. Only in this way will it be satisfied and feel happy?
"Then...then why would they want to live a life worse than death underground?" Zhang Lu felt that he had never been so puzzled. "Did the underground people betray them? Backstabbed them? Was it actually the underground people who had the problem in the first place?"
"I don't know, but what I know is that the best way now is to go back to zone 08." Bai Jinshu stood up.
"If all this was done to make people suffer, then there is no doubt," he began, "that zone 08 is now the most miserable area."
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