Chapter 265: Experimental Field Corrupted Old Soul
ten years.
He didn't even dare to pray for twenty or thirty years. He only needs ten years.
Yu Chen's voice gradually became hoarse, "What about ten years later?"
Bai Ling lowered his eyes, his expression unexpectedly calm, "It depends on the situation. If the situation is not good, I might go to your grave in the middle of the night with a beer and chatter. If I'm tired, I'll just lie on your tombstone and sleep for a while. If the situation is good——"
As if thinking of something comforting, he pulled his face and raised his thin lips, "I'll go find you."
The bionic man's respiratory system functions normally. But Yu Chen felt as if his throat was blocked by a wet paper ball, choking him tightly. "...Where can you find me?"
Bai Ling raised his head slightly and glanced at him. "That depends on whether you go to heaven or hell. Although you have done a lot of good things, you will most likely go to hell. Then I will go to hell too and keep you company."
He described the journey to the underworld with lightness and understatement as if it were a spring outing. His attitude was frank, as if the decision had been made long ago when Yu Chen didn't even know.
Yu Chen tightened his five fingers little by little, almost breaking the steel-made finger bones.
The maintenance room was small and there was no place to sit, so Bai Ling leaned his thin back against the rack to support his tired limbs. His lips were gray, and he silently crossed his arms across his chest, as if he was hugging himself.
"I know it's hard to convince you, and I can't stop you. Just like you've never stopped me from doing anything."
“We all have things we have to do.”
"You don't have to feel bad for me. I'm mentally prepared."
He was critically ill time and time again, and he stayed in the hospital countless times. The dosage of medicine was increased again and again. He would rather put himself in chains. Doesn't the mermaid feel pain? I guess it must be painful. Without even frowning, he insisted on coming over to accompany me, trying his best to make use of every minute of time and taking advantage of every opportunity to be affectionate with me.
That's enough.
I have seen and remembered all the efforts you have made as my spouse.
I know everything.
"Fate will not treat us well. You must have paid a lot for loving me. If it weren't for me, for accompanying me on this thorny road... you could have stayed quietly in the palace, as a safe blind man, and lived for another twenty years... until the day I was supposed to die."
"But I'm always selfish."
"If I had to choose, I would probably still bring you out. I..." His breath was choked in his chest, his nose was sour, and he smiled faintly, "I may not have told you that the happiest time in my two lives was last winter. It was dark and drizzling. We were watching TV together while eating and fell asleep because we were too sleepy. I woke up and found you were still there."
“I still want to live like this.”
The corners of the bionic man's lips trembled slightly. This was not his original body. He could not control it accurately. Slowly he could not contain himself and his facial features were stretched into a sad expression.
yes.
Forced.
As long as he turns a deaf ear to the outside world and is content to be an online netizen, he can live longer and longer even if his limbs are dying...but what's the point of that? That's just living, not living.
Trade twenty years of darkness for two years of happy life.
Like the bird, he had no regrets at all.
The huge fate that lies between the two of them has been preventing them from getting close, meeting, and getting along. There was a threat from somewhere in the dark that they were not a good match. They were not compatible and their ages were not suitable, but in order to live a happier life, both parties tacitly understood each other and tried their best to accommodate each other.
Others would have let go long ago, but they held on tightly, and would never let go even if there was a cliff behind them.
"So you don't need to continue to give, just leave it all to me." Bird leaned on the IV stand, like a spearman holding a spear, and took a step forward fiercely with each sentence, "I'm still young, I should protect you, let me take it, I can handle it!"
Slowly, Yu Chen shook his head. He raised the corners of his lips, a smile that didn't look like a smile, "I can't let you carry it all. The burden is too heavy."
"How heavy is it?" Bai Ling stared at him closely, trying to get the answer from his inorganic camera.
Yu Chen's Adam's apple moved violently, and he rolled his eyes. Finally, under his gaze, he slowly asked a seemingly irrelevant question:
"Do you know why the Empire and the Federation are called the First and Second Experimental Countries?"
Bai Ling frowned, not understanding what he meant for a moment.
Before he could answer, Yu Chen laughed sarcastically and answered his own question simply: "Because this is their testing ground."
"Who?" It was like a needle piercing his mind. When Bai Ling asked this question, he froze unconsciously.
Yu Chen: "Earthlings."
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This matter can be traced back 400 years ago, or even earlier to the end of the 20th century.
At that time, the Earth was in the midst of a local hot war. Major forecasting agencies around the world calculated through artificial intelligence that if the situation continued, in the 21st century, the Earth would be completely destroyed in a horrific nuclear war amid increasingly fierce conflicts.
Previously, the artificial intelligence company's predictions had never been wrong.
Faced with this situation, senior leaders of Western developed countries gathered together and voted in favor without any prior agreement, launching a plan to escape the earth.
It is called, "Human Immortality Project".
Different from ordinary plans, this plan was divided into two groups, A and B, when the project was initially established. Plan A is the old-fashioned freezing of the body, while Plan B is to develop interstellar immigration.
Two secret projects were launched simultaneously, led by different scientific teams. In principle, the two do not interfere with each other, and researchers on both sides are not even aware of the existence of the other side.
Among them, the implementation of Plan B is more ambitious. After entering the 21st century, there have been media reports and national acknowledgments that they are developing an "atmosphere-making machine" - with it, humans can artificially create an atmosphere on alien planets and improve them into places suitable for human habitation.
But unfortunately, scientists believe that it will take at least 200 years to completely improve the environment of an Earth-like planet, increase the atmospheric concentration, and block out dangerous cosmic radiation.
During this period, the living environment for the immigrants was very bad. They don't even live past thirty.
As a result, developed countries have once again turned their attention to mankind’s good friends - animals.
Top scientists began to experiment with combining human genes with those of various animals, and called themselves gods, Nuwa, and God, in an attempt to create a new group of humans.
And call it, "Alien Generation 1".
Later, they discovered that animal genes evolved much faster than human genes. In order to adapt to the harsh environment, the genes of the aliens in the laboratory underwent rapid iteration, and the degree of evolution was beyond imagination.
Soon, they "invented" the jellyfish man who could survive normally in low concentrations of oxygen and high concentrations of radiation, and they happily dismembered it and began to study it.
Because jellyfish people are easy to make and their genes can be replicated in large quantities, but they lack more properties, they labeled the first generation of similar marine aliens as the beta tribe.
But in the accelerated life experiment, after just one generation, seahorses, the omegas who were able to give birth to children, appeared among the marine aliens.
This DNA was "genetically promoted" among different species through large-scale hybridization. Obviously, in order to survive, animals will automatically choose the path that is most suitable for reproducing offspring, even if it means developing a uterus in the male's body.
Over the next 10 years, these aliens were taken to distant Earth-like planets. One of the planets had desert vegetation and abundant sunshine, and was called the "Golden Planet" by the first people who came here.
There, a group of scientists continued their experimental research. They made major genetic modifications to the aliens in their hands, observed some groups with greatly enhanced physical strength and endurance, and marked them as alpha groups.
Of course, there are also experimental failures.
They would dump the failed products in an underground nuclear pool, which was very closely guarded. At least the monster wouldn't come out of the water until they evacuated.
At the same time, World War III broke out on Earth. What echoed the flying shells and human wailing was not the organization of self-rescue, but the arcs of light left by the intensive immigration spacecraft launched by major powers.
This world war lasted for twenty years and destroyed almost every piece of land on the earth's surface.
Soil pollution, sea water pollution, large numbers of people died, and only some of the world's richest people, old money families, technology upstarts and politicians survived in the safe zone where birds sing and flowers bloom.
They released the aliens and cleaned up the mess.
In order to survive, some people either voluntarily accept genetic modification or marry people of different species. But the earth's environment has become extremely harsh, and even aliens cannot withstand the genetic mutations caused by radiation.
There were even horrific incidents where mutant babies grew sharp claws, cut their mothers' bellies, and their intestines and organs fell out in a pool of blood.
In order to survive, female aliens were forced to evolve from viviparous to oviparous. The hard eggshell can lock the unborn "little monster" inside and ensure the safety of the mother.
During the war, a large number of aliens were sent to the [Humanity's First Experimental Field] galaxy.
That is the present empire.
The first group sent over were marine creatures and birds. The reason is simple: birds are adapted to G-forces, are good at deep space driving, and can easily survive in the cosmic environment; and marine creatures have strong resistance to decay and pollution.
Moreover, deep-sea fish do not need sunlight. They can go to remote mining planets that are far away from the stars and are dark all year round, and work diligently to mine for big capitalists.
so.
Bai Ling thought absurdly that the legend of the fish and the bird was not a romantic story at all. In truth, they are just tools carefully selected by Earth Capital to adapt to the environment.
"Later, they found a more distant galaxy that was more suitable for farming. In order to exploit the resources, they released large and fertile mammals, which were the former Federation people."
Yu Chen sat on the chair, holding him in his arms, speaking in a low voice, as if telling an ancient horror story:
"After the World War, the surviving humans moved to live underground. After that, they conducted a 100-year observation of the [First Experimental Site] and the [Second Experimental Site] in order to investigate which animal genes could live better, longer, and with a higher quality of life."
Bai Ling suddenly had a terrible idea. The light was dim, and he looked into the android's eyes, his brows tense:
“Why observe? What’s the point?”
Yu Chen hugged him tighter and let him sit horizontally on his lap. The bionic man's powerful hands were gently stroking the omega's back:
"Remember what I said, there are still some people who support freezing bodies? Rather than going to a barren planet to develop, the rich people on Earth would certainly prefer to enjoy the fruits of success directly."
Plan A gradually emerged.
Bai Ling couldn't help but tremble all over. He felt as if there was a distant thunder rumbling in his ears from the other side of the universe. In the void, a giant blood-stained hand pushed away the mist and grabbed towards his head.
Yu Chen turned his cold eyes and looked at the bird whose back was trembling, but he did not stop his story mercilessly.
"The nobles on Earth have frozen their bodies and extracted their self-consciousness, or in other words, the particle form of their souls. When the civilizations of the Empire and the Federation develop and prosper, they will wake up from their sleep, as if they had a long sweet dream, and arrive 400 years later without any burden."
"After waking up, they will ask the servants to come and put on new clothes for them, just like before."
"It's just that the clothes this time are not made of silk or satin."
"It's a person."
“They are the children of our country.”
Bai Ling's lips trembled and he could hardly make a sound. His knuckles turned blue, and he used all his strength to grab the mermaid's clothes and squeezed out a breath, "You mean... you mean, the report I received before, those children who were kidnapped to New Columbus were used to--"
"That's right," Yu Chen said calmly, as if he was repeating a numbing fact, "It's the 'skin case' used to revive the powerful people on Earth."
Bai Ling felt a lump in his chest and he even wanted to beg him to stop talking. But the depressed voice was still as calm as water:
"If I'm not mistaken, they will inject electronic souls into children's bodies to cover up their original consciousness. These children are all healthy mutants, enough for those 21st century rich people who have lived for most of their lives to start a happy life for at least 80 years in the 25th century."
Yu Chen suddenly turned his face to the side, held up Bai Ling's cheek with his palm, pressed his thumb under his eye, and rubbed it lightly, as if with some pity:
"Baby, the entire Reconstruction Project Agency under the wasteland of the Earth, including the unit where your mother works, is completely serving this immortality plan. All those who are struggling in the dark underground are the gravekeepers of the world's richest people, families, and politicians back then."
"You have been used by them."
Under his caress, Bai Ling closed her eyes in despair.
A distant and blurry scene seemed to appear before my eyes. The lights were dim, and the underground city was filled with a lingering stench of decay. His mother was young, but she had fine lines at the corners of her eyes.
She sat by the sealed window, drinking the wine on the table, her expression empty and blank:
"...I really regret giving birth to you..."
"Born in a grave, what future can there be..."
It turns out that what they are guarding together is not some brilliant fire of the Earth, but a group of——
A corrupt old soul that is too vicious and selfish to die.
Bai Ling's face turned pale and he felt an unbearable churning in his stomach. A strong feeling of nausea almost made him vomit up his esophagus.
Seeing this, Yu Chen brushed his hair, like a parent bird combing its young bird's feathers, and threaded his sweaty white hair between his fingers.
But the next second, Bai Ling grabbed his wrist and pulled him down, revealing a pair of blood-red eyes burning with rage. Bai Ling said hoarsely: "I want to ask a question."
Yu Chen knew everything and said, "You say."
"Why... With such financial resources, why don't you repair the earth!"
He let out a shout from his congested chest.
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