107 Chapter 107
Yan Xilan immediately found Gu Ziyu, who also happened to want to tell him about Li Jiuwang's attempt to get involved in the meteorite, and before he could open his mouth, he was pulled onto the roof of the office building.
Gu Ziyu looked at him suspiciously, because the other party looked a little different from the past at the moment, and the dissipation that shrouded his eyebrows had dissipated a lot recently.
"I thought of a solution. The little master said.
Gu Ziyu was stunned for a moment and asked what to do, the young man on the opposite side smiled and said, "There is something I haven't said, in fact, I still have a special ability." I'd like to tell you about it after I've shown it to you. As soon as he was about to ask, the man suddenly stepped forward, put his hands on his cheeks, and fixed his head in a position to look directly at him, "Look into my eyes." β
Gu Ziyu didn't know why, but the habit he had developed over the years made him subconsciously choose to do it. At first, he was still a little uncomfortable - when he realized that what he was looking at him up close without concealment was the bamboo horse who couldn't ask for it, his eyes involuntarily began to wander, until the other party whispered that he was not allowed to move, and he could barely suppress the panic in his heart. But soon, he didn't have the energy to take care of anything else.
The young man's jet-black pupils were like a whirlpool, sucking him in, and then, he saw a world of gray and blood red.
The sky was even darker and hazy than it was now, and the scene of depression and decay and rivers of blood made Gu Ziyu gasp. The whole forest seemed to be covered by dust, and the ashes were not alive, and the road was full of stumps and broken arms, and zombies, animals that lived by eating carrion, and they roamed around with human zombies, waiting for an opportunity to hunt for food.
The city is in ruins, full of broken walls, and pools of dried blood can be seen everywhere, embedded in the concrete pavement, the old and the new are superimposed, and I am afraid that even if it is washed several times, it may not be able to erase its traces. But no one has the heart to do that anymore.
The pungent smell of blood mixed with the smell of corpses, and Gu Ziyu's stomach spasmed and began to retch. The world was so real that he was immersed in it, overwhelmed by the despair that permeated the air.
More shocking is yet to come.
Time seemed to be infected by the atmosphere, becoming anxious and sluggish, and Gu Ziyu, who had finished retching, began to walk around, looking for fresh life in this ruined capital. I don't know how long later, just when he was about to go numb, several figures suddenly appeared on the horizon in the distance.
Gu Ziyu was undoubtedly excited at that moment, as if he had finally received some kind of redemption, he ran towards them ecstatically. However, when he ran close and saw the scene in front of him, he was stunned.
This is a very typical exploration team, the members are evolutionaries he is familiar with, but the difference from the current world is that in their equipment, there are ordinary people who would never appear in the past, and the evolutionaries have something similar to a collar around their necks.
Even Gu Ziyu sensed that something was wrong.
In disbelief, he used his mental power to probe it again, and found that the two well-dressed and overseers were indeed ordinary people, while the mental fluctuations of the evolutionaries were close to the brink of exhaustion, and it could be seen from their faces that their health was very problematic.
They are about to dry up and die. Gu Ziyu's chest tightened when he realized this, and he moved his lips to say something, but he found that he couldn't make any sound, or rather, the voice couldn't reach them, even though it was close at hand. Just as all the zombies didn't notice him along the way, these living people also didn't perceive his existence.
Something invisibly separated him from the world.
"They were injected with inhibitors. β
The young man stood beside him at some point. Gu Ziyu turned his head abruptly to look at him. Compared with his violent reaction, the other party was extremely calm, and just said calmly: "You look back." β
Seeing that there was no further explanation, Gu Ziyu forcibly suppressed the doubts in his heart and continued to watch patiently. The next scene caused him discomfort, both psychologically and physically.
In Gu Ziyu's cognition, evolutionaries are the protectors of ordinary people, among which they are admittedly black sheep, but they are more good people who are psychologically no different from ordinary people like in the Dawning Base. If they are willing to use their power to help others, they deserve to be respected, and vice versa, they need to be punished, and the group animals need order and will not be exempted from certain transformations.
But what he sees now is not so. Indiscriminate and mocking words and deeds are not so much about treating an equal person as they are about treating a working machine with contempt.
The uncontrollable fear made them ruthless and extreme, and Gu Ziyu saw a deep fear in their eyes.
"How can this be...... he couldn't hold back any longer, and asked anxiously, "Ah Jin, what's going on?"
At this point, the exploration team began to make their way out of the cityβapparently they had already gathered their supplies and were ready to make their way home.
Yan Xilan said: "Follow up, you will know." β
As soon as the words fell, as if controlled by an invisible hand, Gu Ziyu's body involuntarily rose into the air, following behind them in a floating posture. Along the way, he looked at those people from time to time, and then turned his head to look at the young man next to him, and suddenly found that he didn't actually know this person at all, for example, now, he didn't even know what the other party was thinking at the moment.
I don't know when there was a distance between them.
Gu Ziyu retracted his gaze, lowered his eyes slightly, and silently allowed his body to be dominated to move forward, until a large-scale base appeared in front of them.
"This is the Tamron base. The young man prompted in a timely voice.
Gu Ziyu looked around with wide eyes in surprise, and frowned when he noticed the movement at the gate. He saw that everyone who entered the base had to hand over a large number of crystal nuclei and materials, or those scarce ornaments, and if they were destitute, they would be turned away.
There are, of course, exceptions, as the guards will select young adults from among these people, and one of them will register and lead them into the base.
Yan Xilan led him through the crowd and followed him in majestically, and said: "These people are pulled to do coolies, although the conditions are difficult, but compared to the precarious living environment outside the base, the title of the head of the base in the last days can bring them some psychological comfort." β
Gu Ziyu: "This ......"
The young man seemed to understand what he was thinking, and replied, "This is the world in a year's time. β
Gu Ziyu thought of what he gave Li Jiuwang, and couldn't help but say, "We are not ......"
Yan Xilan said: "As you can see, your vaccine is obviously not used on the cutting edge. β
Gu Ziyu was stunned, and after coming back to his senses, he said urgently: "If this is the case, I will definitely stop it!"
"I can't stop it. Yan Xilan turned around, looked at him quietly, and said, "You are dead." β
Gu Ziyu was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
After that, he numbly watched the Tenglong base, which controls the vaccine, use it as political capital to seek maximum benefits. The fear of the zombie virus and the thirst for vaccines among ordinary humans have given the base a transcendent status. On the other hand, the fear and despair of tomorrow make people violent and extreme, and under the pressure of catharsis, the evolutionaries who have been injected with inhibitors have become good targets.
The more this is the case, the more fearful the evolutionary backlash becomes, and for this reason, they follow Amosif's Three Laws of Robotics and formulate a set of unequal treaties that bind the evolutionary:
1. Evolutionaries must not harm ordinary human beings, or cause casualties to ordinary human beings due to their own inaction;
2. Unless the first law is violated, the evolutionary must obey ordinary humans;
3. Unless the first and second laws are violated, it is necessary for the evolutionary to protect himself from damage.
"Why don't they resist?" Gu Ziyu was half puzzled and half angry.
"Because they're addicted. Yan Xilan stopped in a place that looked like a warehouse, and said, "At the same time as they inject inhibitors, they will also be injected with a drug that can make people excited for a short period of time to fight zombies. This hyperstimulant lasts for a short period of time, has a high degree of addiction, and after three injections, it becomes inseparable from it, and after the effect of the drug has passed, the mental power will accelerate the exhaustion. It's a vicious circle. β
"And both of these are derived from vaccines. Yan Xilan pointed to the building in front of him, "This is their laboratory." As he spoke, he drifted inside.
Gu Ziyu hurriedly followed and said, "Are they voluntarily injecting inhibitors?"
Soon, he got the answer.
Through the thick walls, he saw a decadent evolutionary being driven into an isolation cell, tied to a bed, and forcibly injected with a tube of blue liquid.
"You've seen it too. Yan Xilan looked at the people inside through the transparent glass window of the isolation room, "Do you want to know how the situation developed like this?"
Gu Ziyu had mixed feelings in his heart, and immediately replied when he heard the words: "Yes." β
"Then be mentally prepared. Yan Xilan said: "These problems all come from you. β
Gu Ziyu was stunned.
"Chang Pengfei is a qualified politician, and the people in power usually have a strong desire to control, which was already evident at the beginning. The evolutionary is superior to ordinary people in some aspects, he uses them, but he also guards against them, and his investment vision is also very good, so when the vaccine is developed, it is the first to throw an olive branch like you. He didn't put the vaccine into use at the first time, but to observe the effect of your use, which was called to the research institute for experimentation, which is actually the case, but not just in case to check the effect. β
Yan Xilan paused, and continued: "Ziyu, we are not very special people, there are still many respected old-timers in this field, they did not develop it because their luck was not as good as ours, and they were able to pick up that meteorite, but as long as they give them data, they will definitely be able to get something." β
It didn't take long for the old professors to discover the potential problems with the vaccine and develop inhibitors based on it.
However, the inhibitor was not originally called an inhibitor, it was called TH-39 sustained-release agent, which was used as a delaying tactic to alleviate the degenerative effects of the vaccine. After all, even if he is an evolutionary, when he encounters a zombie of a higher level than him, there is still a danger of infection, and the world is not yet peaceful, and it is undoubtedly a matter of digging one's own grave to rashly lose a powerful arm.
The normal injection of the vaccine will be effective within 24 hours, which can not be described as overbearing, while the effect of the sustained-release agent is to slow down this effect, and the peak of mental power can be adjusted according to the dose, the disadvantage is that it will expire after half a month, and it must be re-injected within that time.
Originally, the professors just wanted to make a time difference so that they could find a real solution, but when this thing came into the hands of someone with a heart, it completely changed its taste. The Tamron base secretly replaced the vaccine injected by the evolutionaries with an increased dose of sustained-release agents to control this group of potential threats that existed in the social class.
When the evolutionaries found out and protested collectively, Chang Pengfei used rhetoric to coax Gu Ziyu to come forward to solve the problem, the latter did not know the twists and turns here, and also had a good impression of people.
Gu Ziyu is a typical evolutionary who still treats himself as an ordinary person, so he has no resistance to changing back again, and even thinks that this is not a good thing, after the disaster is lifted, everyone goes back to the past and lives the original life. Therefore, he called on the evolutionaries to find a sense of belonging that truly belongs to them, and in order to set an example, he was the first to take the initiative to inject sustained-release agents.
In fact, there are not a few people who have the same ideas as him, and Gu Ziyu's own influence and his own continuous efforts to reconcile, there are also people who are willing to inject one after another. After all, it was just a transition for people at that time, and who would have thought that this would be the beginning of a nightmare.
"Zombies can't be killed, and so are infected animals and plants, as long as there is a fish that slips through the net, it will multiply quickly, so it is impossible to go back to the past, the world has changed, I have emphasized this many times. Yan Xilan said.
"When people realized the problem, evolutionaries were once again a lifesaver. On the one hand, in order to maximize their role, on the other hand, because of the fear in their hearts, on the basis of the data of the vaccine, another drug was developed, which is the hyperactive agent just mentioned. β
"Inhibitors have left evolutionaries in a perpetuated passivity, regulated, discriminated against, but chasing the short-term pleasure of hypereuphoria, the desire to regain control of power and the addictive nature of the drug that make them more and more inseparable from it. β
"It's a morbid vicious circle, and a lot of people don't actually approve of it, but these different voices are erased. At this point, the young man's expression revealed a slight mockery: "The rest of the people have been controlled by relatives and friends. The potion is actually not terrible, the real scary is the human beings themselves. β
"As for you," he looked at Gu Ziyu fixedly, the mockery on his face had not yet dissipated, "you have already died in the undercurrent hidden under it." β
The existence of evolutionary beings is inevitable, and if they want to coexist in harmony, they must establish a new order, rather than blindly suppressing and erasing them, which will only lead to the self-destruction of human beings, who gradually lose their survival advantage.
While Gu Ziyu thought of this, he suddenly realized another question: "Ah Jin, why do you know this?"
Yan Xilan's face did not change and replied: "Because my ability is prophecy, you are now in my spiritual world." β
Gu Ziyu was stunned: "Prophecy?"
Yan Xilan nodded, "I can see the future, that's why I will stop you." β
Gu Ziyu was at a loss: "Why don't you tell me directly?"
"We were surrounded by people, right? I didn't want anyone else to know. Yan Xilan said: "You should understand that for some people, this ability will even be more valuable than a vaccine. β
Gu Ziyu finally digested what he saw and heard, and suddenly became worried when he heard the words: "Then the news hasn't leaked now, right?"
"Nope. The young man said, "You can see about it, let's go out." β
As soon as the words fell, Gu Ziyu only felt that his eyes were dark, and after a short period of dizziness, he returned to the real world that he was extremely familiar with.
Yan Xilan let go of the hand that fixed his head and began to make a concluding statement: "So, your path doesn't work. β
Time has passed, and Gu Ziyu no longer insists on his opinion: "What is the method you said before?"
Yan Xilan said: "Disputes arise from differences, as long as everyone becomes the same." β
Gu Ziyu obviously didn't keep up with his brain circuit, and after a while, he reacted, and a guess that seemed quite crazy to him faintly rose in his heart: "You don't want to ......"
"That's right. Yan Xilan smiled slightly: "I want to develop an evolutionary agent." β
Gu Ziyu was dumbfounded, and after a long time, he came to his senses and asked like a cannonball: "Are you sure? We don't even have a direction at the moment, can we really achieve results in a short period of time?"
"Who says there's no direction?"
Gu Ziyu was stunned for a moment, and looked at the young man suspiciously, who spoke again without hurry: "Don't we have the most critical experiment?"
"In the battle of the guards a few months ago, a high-level zombie was born that surpassed the zombie dog, and the toxin attached to the surface of the meteorite proved that it was the previous carrier. β
Yan Xilan paused, and continued: "The zombie race obeys the strong, which means that before carrying the meteorite, its strength is not as good as that of the leader zombie dog, what makes it quickly improve and evolve in a short period of time? After all, the others that they didn't carry were just ordinary zombies. β
"So, we've always had the key to solving the problem. The young man said with a final word.
This time, Gu Ziyu's silence seemed longer than ever, and in the end, he took a deep breath and said like a boat: "I don't have any other strengths, as long as there is something that can help, please be sure to tell me." I've already done it wrong once, and I don't want to do it again, so let me do my part. β
Yan Xilan glanced at him and snorted, "You think you can escape?"
Gu Ziyu bent his eyes slightly, and then began to bow his head and admit his mistake: "Ah Jin, I'm sorry, I did something wrong just now without telling you." β
The young man sighed, "You mean you stole the data to Tenglong?"
Gu Ziyu raised his head suddenly: "You know?!"
Yan Xilan raised her eyebrows: "Have you forgotten what my ability is?"
Gu Ziyu was right when he thought about it, and then he heard the person on the other side say: "Moreover, if I want to stop you and destroy the data directly, why bother yourself? Later, there were two smiles in his words.
He hesitated for a long time, and couldn't help asking, "Ah Jin, ...... you Don't you blame me?"
"It's not strange or not, but you have to believe me in the future, who are you and I? Will I be pitted by you?" Yan Xilan played the little young master who was wronged and began to lose his temper, and said with a straight look: "Actually, I already have an eyebrow about the evolutionary agent, and I believe that the time for it to be released will be much shorter than the time when we were researching the vaccine." β
Gu Ziyu's face finally turned blue. He thanked him softly, and then explained everything since he met Li Jiuwang, and finally emphasized the fact that the other party coveted the meteorite. The young man's demeanor told him plainly that he knew this.
Gu Ziyu was silent for a while, and said in a sighing tone: "Sure enough, I have always been inferior to you. β
The young man said, "Are you laughing at me?"
Gu Ziyu shook his head again and again: "It's true, I'm not smart." β
The young man said: "That's also the person that I, Xie Jin, put in my eyes." β
Gu Ziyu looked at him in a daze, and his heart fluctuated inside.
It was false to say that he was not moved, he took a deep breath and pleaded: "Ah Jin, can you let me hug you, just once, for the last time." β
The young man stood still, and after a brief moment of astonishment, his indifference was more like a tacit approval. Gu Ziyu carefully spread his arms, holding a moderate distance, and surrounded him with emptiness.
Neither of them spoke, only the sound of breathing echoed in their ears until Gu Ziyu was the first to break the silence.
"Are you happy now?"
Yan Xilan was silent for a moment and hummed.
In a place where people couldn't see, Gu Ziyu's eyes gradually turned red, and he smiled and muttered, "That's good." Then he let go of him, and turned around and did not go back downstairs.
Only Yan Xilan was left on the rooftop.
In the silence, 008 began to sigh. Yan Xilan turned his head to look at it, "What's wrong with you?"
"What do you call it? The little system muttered, "I just don't know why I want to sigh." β
"It's a sign of your progress. Yan Xilan replied casually, looking thoughtful. Seeing this, 008 swallowed back the sentence that if this is the case, then the host you have also improved, and hurriedly started a new topic and said: "If you can get a good result, it is not in vain to waste your arrangement, this is what you call killing two birds with one stone, right?"
The fake can't be fake anymore, Yan Xilan squinted at it, and didn't bother to take care of it.
As 008 said, there was no prophecy at all, Gu Ziyu was just hypnotized. Yan Xilan led him into the constructed spiritual world, made him realize the seriousness of the problem, and at the same time induced him to use a new way out, and finally guided Gu Ziyu on the right track, eliminating the hidden danger of base splitting.
As for the potential risks of using hypnosis for the Child of Fortune, if you can get the Child of Fortune to agree with your point of view and interfere, it will be difficult for the Mind Consciousness to detect the clues. But if it is a person or something that makes the child of luck feel unusual, be careful.
Yan Xilan's reliance is Gu Ziyu's closeness and unreserved trust in Xie Jin, and from another point of view, it can be regarded as owing the original owner a favor. Now, the original owner's wish to win over Gu Ziyu once has been fulfilled, and the rest will be repaid by letting him use the birth of the evolutionary agent.
At this time, 008 suddenly spoke up and asked curiously, "Host, if there is no interference, will the world you just built come true?"
When Yan Xilan heard this, he looked at it with a smile, and after a while, he said, "You guess." β
The little system, which had been waiting for a long time, suddenly began to wail: "Ahhh
While laughing, 008 suddenly screamed, and then panicked: "The host is not good, there is a spiritual fluctuation of the Zombie King in the base!