Chapter 73: Snake on Desert Island (12)
The effect of mushrooms does not end once the activity is completed. Stimulating sexual desire is only one aspect of the effect. Its main function is to detoxify.
However, the resonance caused by the desire ended after it was relieved. The snake returned to its original form, with its long tail hanging on the ground, its upper body still curled up in the felt, and it slowly opened its eyes.
"Awake?" Tao Xing said in a gentle voice, "There are dried fish in the cave. Eat something. It's getting dark and I want to go out for a while. Can you stay here and wait for me? I'll bring you a mouse when I come back."
The snake blinked.
Tao Xing knew that it didn't understand, so he gestured with his hands and added: "No matter who comes to see you, don't go out."
The snake understood, tucked in its tail, coiled itself into a round shape, and ate the dried fish slowly, indicating that it would be well behaved.
It was very tired, but in a good mood because people spoke to it in an especially gentle tone today and looked at it with soft eyes.
Tao Xing smiled, covered it with a felt, patted its head, packed her clothes and went out.
The company's base is mainly located around the laboratory. The island, which is usually dark, is bright tonight.
These people were very fast. In half a day, they caught all the failed products and locked them in a big cage. There were monsters with human faces, foxes with human hands, rabbits with human ears...
Tao Xing walked around the cage and his eyes fell on the human-faced monster.
Wang Yuzhou originally planned to merge with the Golden Dragon Python, but the snake's resistance allowed him to escape. Later, the snake bit the experimenter to death and escaped as well.
Bai Sheng once said that the snake escaped well and it was a pity that it was merged with humans. Last night, the snake said again that after Wang Yuzhou escaped, the experimenter let it look at a virtual human portrait made by a computer.
Putting all these things together, Tao Xing basically figured out what happened at that time.
If Wang Yuzhou escapes, the laboratory will definitely report it to Bai Sheng. Bai Sheng finds out that what was caught this time is a rare spirit snake. Fearing that the experiment will fail again, he does not plan to use humans. Instead, he wants to use a virtual human to synthesize it. In fact, it cannot be considered synthesis. It can only be said that data is implanted into the snake's body to turn it into a mechanical monster.
As soon as this idea was confirmed, 080 immediately said: "Host, congratulations on unlocking the mission details. In the original plot, the Golden Dragon Python did turn into a mechanical monster."
"I have completed my task, and you are just telling me the details now!" Tao Xing was speechless.
However, from this, it can be seen that in the original plot, the snake later ate humans and evolved into a ferocious beast, losing its ability to make independent judgments, but there was mechanical data in its body, which made it very easy to be controlled. Rather than saying that it caused the extinction of mankind, it would be better to say that it was directed by the person who controlled it. Then the person who controlled it was probably Bai Sheng.
It was obviously not the snake that caused the disaster, it was just a knife, but in Tao Xing's mission, it was the villain who destroyed humanity.
080 whispered, "Host, perhaps, it is because it is not hopeless that you have arranged a rescue mission for it."
That’s right... Tao Xing’s mood improved.
The only confusing thing is that everyone is dead, so who conducted the experiment on Wang Yuzhou and the hairless cat?
The other party seemed to sense his gaze and raised his eyes from the iron cage. Under the moonlight, Tao Xing's pupils shrank slightly.
"Xiao Tao?" There were footsteps approaching. It was Gao Qi.
Tao Xing turned around and said, "Hello."
"You're here, just in time. I was going to ask someone to call you." Gao Qi said, "What happened on the island has caused a stir in the outside world and has attracted a lot of attention. We plan to start a live broadcast. You know a lot of details best. You're also the hero who subdued Bai Sheng. I'd like to invite you to participate in the live broadcast, is that okay?"
"Can."
"Okay, it'll start soon, come and get ready."
Tao Xing agreed and looked back at the cage before leaving.
Gao Qi pulled him and whispered, "You know, there's something wrong with that human face. According to the records, this intern named Wang Yuzhou was originally planned to be combined with your snake. We have reviewed the things in the research institute, but you must know all this. Wang Yuzhou ran away, and the experimenter was bitten to death by the snake. The experiment did not continue. However, after our inspection, we found that Wang Yuzhou had been injected with a fusion potion, and his body melted. His body's self-will to survive made him swallow a nearby hairless cat on his own, and in the end, it was still combined."
"So that's how it is." Tao Xing looked back again, but his sight was blocked by the cage and he could no longer see it clearly.
At the beginning of the live broadcast, the main purpose was to answer questions from the outside world. Tao Xing answered them one by one. It was quite normal in the beginning, but gradually, some inappropriate words appeared in the live broadcast room.
"Wow, this guy named Tao is so handsome."
"He was the one who caught the dean. He was so handsome and powerful."
"Let the handsome guy talk, we want to see the handsome guy..."
Gao Qi: “…”
Tao Xing: “…”
It was supposed to be a very serious live broadcast, but it was affected by these words. Gao Qi was so angry that he turned off the live broadcast early.
Later he kept Tao Xing to ask some questions, and when he returned, it was almost dawn.
Tao Xing brought a bag of mice back to the cave. The snake was sleeping. He opened his eyes when he heard the noise, looked at the food in front of him, then looked at the person, and narrowed his pupils slightly, as if he was smiling.
Tao Xing also smiled and touched its head.
The snake rubbed against his neck, its cold tongue touching his skin bit by bit, bringing a slight itch.
By now, Tao Xing roughly understood that this was its way of kissing.
It was just too itchy. He shook his head and smiled, holding up the snake head: "Then I will also kiss you in my own way."
He came closer: Wow!
The snake was stunned, its eyes turned bloodshot in an instant, and its body stiffened. It came to its senses after a while, and coiled back to its original position, biting a leaf.
Tao Xing couldn't help laughing again. He lay down next to it and took a short nap. In a blink of an eye, it was dawn. He just woke up and heard a commotion outside. He walked out and was surprised to see people coming and going. People in different clothes were walking back and forth. It was obvious that they were not the same group of people who were in the company yesterday.
Some people were holding cameras and talking into microphones. Others saw him and their eyes immediately lit up. They ran over to surround him and said, "Handsome Tao, we came all the way here to see you."
Not far away, Gao Qi was also walking over and shrugged helplessly: "Yesterday's live broadcast was inexplicably popular. Many people came today, including media from all walks of life, experts, researchers, freelance journalists, and many others... claiming to be your fans."
Tao Xing: “…”
"Don't feel any psychological pressure. Although such things really shouldn't be turned into entertainment, it's a good thing that it can be spread and attract widespread attention and attention." Gao Qi said, "It's just that there are too many people. Fortunately, we have almost checked everything and will prepare to evacuate tomorrow."
As he was talking, some people gathered around him and asked Tao Xing, "Where's your snake, handsome guy?"
"Resting." Tao Xing said.
"Can we see it?"
"no."
“…”
I walked forward amid the hustle and bustle, passed the hill, and saw someone from the company carrying a small cage and placing it in an empty space.
Inside is the monster with a human face.
"He's dying." Gao Qi said, "Because he wasn't properly cared for after the fusion, he was seriously infected and didn't have much life left. We'll isolate the body first to prevent it from being eaten by the monsters. But... we've already reported that the monsters in the cages will be destroyed and won't be taken away."
Tao Xing frowned slightly, seeing that the human-faced monster was dying, with unfocused eyes. It was in its last moments. Its unfocused eyes turned from the gap in the cage, and its chapped lips slightly opened and closed a few times.
Maybe it was just a death convulsion.
but……
Tao Xing clearly understood it, it was lip language.
He was talking to Tao Xing.
"You can't run away."
"Xiao Tao." People around him called him.
Tao Xing retracted his gaze and looked at Gao Qi: "What's wrong?"
"A lot of people want to interview you, go and deal with them, and try not to let them affect our work."
Tao Xing turned around and was soon surrounded by a group of people.
About a hundred people came to the company yesterday, and today there are at least a few hundred more people. Some of them are here to report, but more of them are here to take advantage of the popularity. Sometimes someone comes to ask Tao Xing a question, sometimes to take a photo with him. The island is so crowded that there is almost no place to stand. Tao Xing has no time to rest throughout the whole day.
Fortunately, they never bothered his snake. Although they said that, no one dared to get close to such a big snake. At most, they would walk outside and look up. As soon as they saw the snake open its eyes, they would be scared away.
At dusk, Tao Xing finally walked out of the crowd. Looking back, he saw a blazing fire in the open space. The semi-finished products in the cages were all dead, and they all gathered around the human-faced monster. To avoid contamination, all the bodies had to be burned.
Tao Xing took a look at the flames and then walked back to his residence.
When it got dark, the noisy people quieted down, set up tents and slept on the ground, made fires and cooked, etc. Perhaps they were still afraid, so they basically surrounded the company's group and camped on the other side of the hill. However, there were too many people and there was definitely no room for them, so they spread over here little by little, and the ground was filled with people.
Tao Xing's location is relatively quiet, and people haven't come over yet.
But it will be soon.
080 suddenly said at this time: "Host, do you want to leave this world?"
Tao Xing raised her eyes and looked at the snake inside through the fence. The moonlight was dim and the snake raised its head slightly.
He smiled inadvertently, then turned around and looked at the hill.
There are twinkling stars and looming human figures in the night.
Before he died, Wang Yuzhou mouthed to him: "You can't run away."
And last night, he stood in front of the cage, and Wang Yuzhou actually spoke to him.
He said, "Run."
At the beginning, Wang Yuzhou and the snake were caught together and were about to be paired. The snake fought hard and broke the door open. Wang Yuzhou, who was already extremely frightened, rushed out regardless of everything.
The door would automatically lock after one person passed through it, and the next person to go out had to enter a password. The snake broke the door open, and he ran away, so the door automatically locked again. The experimenter was already on alert, so it was not so easy to break it open again.
In other words, there was only one chance to escape, and he took it away.
But in fact, as long as he left the door open, the door would not be locked.
Yes, there was not just one chance. After he ran out, he locked the door because he was afraid that the experimenter would chase him. However, he also blocked the snake's chance to leave.
As he fled in panic, he clearly heard a shrill scream and the snake was caught again.
But he didn't dare look back. It was just an animal, so he didn't care.
He had indeed been injected with the fusion potion. At that time, he would not have thought that the snake would eventually bite the experimenter to death and escape. He only knew that he would be caught again and he had to think of a way.
In fact, he was not a completely synthetic creature. He peeled off his own skin and used the melted viscosity to stick the skin of a hairless cat on his body. Under the effect of the potion, his skeletal body was crushed, changed, and reshaped along with the skin.
He looks no different from other human-faced monsters, but only he himself knows that his mind is still that of a human, not a monster.
Only in this way can he have a chance of survival. As long as he still has his sanity, he will not die.
He managed to survive in this way, even if it was only for a few more months, but living like this was meaningful.
Later, didn’t you wait for someone to come?
After several days of observation, he led Tao Xing to the laboratory and let him discover the secrets there.
In fact, he was not sure whether Tao Xing could be trusted, but... there was no one on the island.
The experimenter was not a human, and Bai Sheng who came later was not a human either.
Here comes the other...
Not really.
This biotech company, these hundreds of people, Gao Qi, and these so-called defense personnel, pretended to catch those experimenters and failed products...
They are not human at all.
They are all synthetic humans, the same as Bai Sheng and those in the research institute.
Some of what Bai Sheng said was true, and some was false. He said that they secretly recruited volunteers but no one came. This was false. In fact, they didn't know how many people had been synthesized.
However, the people who volunteered to be synthesized were eventually used up, so they began to lure people in the name of recruiting interns. He said that the experiment failed because of the hormones produced by these people who were lured in due to fear resistance. This is true.
But in short, among so many synthetic humans, Tao Xing is the only one left. What can you expect him to do? You can only ask him to... run.
Last night, Tao Xing did not respond. Wang Yuzhou thought that he probably did not understand the lip reading at all.
In fact, Tao Xing understood.
He replied, but Wang Yuzhou didn't see it.
He said, “I can’t run away anymore.”
Tao Xing guessed that Gao Qi and his group were not human beings the moment they set foot on the island.
They all arrived right after Bai Sheng died. How could it be such a coincidence? They were obviously on standby nearby. Whose life were they waiting for?
Who else but Bai Sheng?
The exploding cell phone was a signal, and once the signal was sent out, they would go out.
When they landed, they explained in detail to Tao Xing who they were, how many people were in the research institute... as if they knew that Tao Xing didn't understand these things.
Would it be possible that an intern who originally came from a research institute didn’t know the basic situation of the institute?
Unless, this intern had a new core and no longer had the memories of the original owner, but how could they know that from their perspective?
That must be related to Bai Sheng.
Also, when Gao Qi asked him if he wanted to contact his family, he naturally handed him his cell phone. How did he know that Tao Xing didn't have a cell phone?
Naturally, I also learned about it from Bai Sheng.
Tao Xing knew that they were not human, but as they said, he could no longer run away.
Gao Qi and others are guarding around the island and are on standby at all times. So, are there no other synthetic humans guarding outside this island?
Who knows how many surging undercurrents are hidden in that endless dark sea?
If they rashly leave the island and are trapped in the sea, they will be in a dilemma, with no place to hide. If he can escape and leave the world, what about the snake?
So many synths came here not for a human like him, but for the snakes.
A snake with a strong spirituality that can transform into a human form, and its horns have the ability to control people's thoughts. If they can be transformed and utilized...
The system said that the mission was accomplished, the snake would not eat people, would not evolve into a ferocious beast, and would not become that knife. However, it did not say that it would not be caught.
If the program uses whether the snake will directly cause human extinction as the criterion for determining whether the mission is complete, then since the mission has been completed, it can be deduced that if the snake is caught, it will not be successfully transformed.
Why the transformation was not successful? Because... it has identified one person and will not be used by anyone else.
But what will happen to such a snake that cannot be used if it is caught?
080 said what Tao Xing had never dared to think: "He will die."
"Isn't the mission to save the villain? If there is still a possibility of death, why should the mission be considered completed?"
"Everything is variable, and the program cannot predict it. It is all judged based on a certain important node. The snake does not eat people, and the villain attribute is changed. This is an important node. As for what happens later, the host does not need to worry about it." The system reads according to the rules, but it knows that the host will not ignore it.
Tao Xing narrowed his eyes slightly. Yes, he would not ignore it, so he would not leave this world.
Yesterday Wang Yuzhou told him to run fast, but today, Wang Yuzhou said that he could no longer run.
Because there are so many...synths coming to the island again.
Dark shadows swayed in the night, almost filling up the island. Because there was no room for them, they were spreading over from the other side.
Media, reporters, fans...
Those who came today are not human either.
It was the live broadcast signal that summoned them over.
The speed of spread was accelerating, and many figures were approaching. The noisy words seemed to have changed their tone, stretched out and slowed down by the night wind, and gradually no longer sounded like human speech.
Suddenly, beasts in the deep mountains roared, leaves in the forest shook wildly, and countless animal shadows suddenly appeared in the jungle.
Tao Xing looked up and his brows furrowed.
Yes.
When humans and animals are combined, the failed product is a half-human, half-animal monster. So, is the successful product really only in human form?
Mingming, there is also an animal form.
Human-shaped synthetics hide animal characteristics, and beast-shaped synthetics hide human characteristics. No changes can be seen on the surface, but they are no longer human or beast.
They're all monsters.
All the animals on the island are synthetic, except for small creatures such as fish, shrimp, mice, and insects.
There were more and more shadows in the jungle, emitting strange glances.
These humanoid and animal-shaped monsters, as if receiving instructions, were approaching Tao Xing with crooked steps, slowly enveloping her like an advancing tide.
Tao Xing raised his hand, opened the fence, and walked towards his snake.
A deserted island, bleak moonlight, so many people, so many animals, but none of them are their kind.
They only have each other.
Fortunately, they still have each other.
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