CHAPTER XXIII
At four o'clock this afternoon, when the sixth real yàn body opened its eyes as Enoch was reborn.
The god of music wakes up from a strange nightmare.
The first soldiers infected with the Alfino virus were cured from the egg-shaped protection formed by the scales.
"It's like in that minute and second, the world woke up from a deep sleep."
A low male voice sounded in his ears, and Zhao Heng put his hands behind his back and looked at the eggs that hung densely on the ceiling, like the eggs produced by monsters-
"The accident at the institute is just a prelude, in just a few days, we have seen so many things that we would not have dared to think of before, we didn't even have time to be surprised by them, they have already happened, and the situation is developing faster than we imagined."
Zhao Heng's sentence "It's like in that minute and second, the world woke up from a certain sleeping state" made Fu Shen a little concerned, so in Yucheng muttered "Lao Zhao, you are quite literate, didn't you even finish high school", he took advantage of everyone's attention to look back at the child sitting in a wheelchair behind him, the latter seemed to have been looking at him, the eyes of the two looked directly at each other, the red eyes flickered, and the corner of the child's lips suddenly provoked a smile......
Seeing that smile, Fushen had a headache, and sure enough, the next second-
"Wow reads;! It's amazing! Enoch also opened his eyes at 10:40, and I was like a hero in American comics, and my awakening led all things to wake up! It's like the emperor and his soldiers are going to embark on the road of conquest from now on!
The child clapped his hands excitedly.
"The first person is 'I' not 'Enochie', are you talking like this?"
"My brother is so fierce."
"I'm killing you."
The god turned his head back without saying a word, and suddenly seemed to read some useful information from Enoche's words: so the sixth real yàn body indirectly admitted that all kinds of strange coincidences from the beginning of "four o'clock" were indeed related to him? Including those soldiers? Why?
"Mr. Zhao, there is something I am a little puzzled about."
"You ask." Zhao Heng pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "It's okay to call me Lao Zhao." ”
"All the soldiers are from these...... Did you wake up inside the egg? ”
Through the observation window, the cocoon carefully observed the magical scene on the other side of the glass—and when he calmed down, he had to marvel at the scene in front of him...... At least in the past thirty years or so that Chu Mobai had lived, he had never imagined that he would see a living person wrapped in scaly eggs!
"Yes, at least that's how the first batch of soldiers survived - at first they just had scales on their bodies, and finally the scales became more and more dense enough to wrap them up......," Zhao Heng explained, "I don't know why, those soldiers stayed inside, and the Elfino virus on their bodies immediately stopped and continued to develop and erode their bodies!" Moreover, these scaly eggs seem to be a natural external barrier, you must know that before that, due to the erosion of the virus, the bones and skin of infected people have become very fragile, even a flying insect or a splash of water can pass through their skulls and kill them-"
The cocoon glanced at Enoche, who was sitting quietly in a wheelchair behind him, "Sounds good." ”
Enoche: "Of course it's good, after all, it's the emperor's—"
Fu Shen: "Shut up." ”
The child closed his mouth and showed an aggrieved expression of "I was mean".
Thinking that this cute-looking expression was made of a war weapon that was actually two meters tall, strong, and had no emotional system, Fu Shen suddenly felt quite unappetizing and looked away at Zhao Heng, at this time the latter had not noticed the strange interaction of the "brothers", and continued to himself: "Doesn't it just sound good, you will see in a while, the soldiers who have escaped from these eggs, they are all ...... Suspecting that the eggs themselves had some magical function, the American imperialists seemed to have their minds set up in their minds, and as soon as the first soldiers broke away from the eggs, they immediately collected the fragments of the eggs—"
Zhao Heng's words sounded a little disdainful of this kind of behavior.
But Fu Shen felt that he fully understood, as a scientific dog, that his fascination with things like "real yàn" was like the tendency of plants to light—in the face of new objects that could not be explained by past theories, they were more likely to be simply desperate to understand what was going on in front of them than the perception that "these people are trying to profit from it".
It is also helpless and helpless to often cause misunderstandings to others, and in most cases, at least "Chu Mobai" will choose to be happy with them.
Fu Shen didn't express his opinion about the other party's misunderstanding, but nodded calmly: "What is the result?" ”
"Probably no result, I don't know much about these creatures," Zhao Heng said, "You can see now that the scales on the surface of these eggs seem to breathe...... But as soon as the soldiers within, they quickly withered and lost their vitality - as if it had deliberately denied humans the study of its own composition and principles. ”
Zhao Heng paused when he said this, and then he said in a voice that even he wasn't sure about: "These eggs, it seems that they have judgment and intelligence, and they don't want others to decipher their secrets-ah, of course, I'm just guessing like this, such a mysterious thing sounds unlikely." ”
The cocoon god nodded thoughtfully, thinking that the doctors in the sanatorium before seemed to be collecting the scales that had fallen from Enoche's body: "What about peeling off the scales directly from the egg that is still in the * state?" ”
"The result is the same."
Zhao Heng said as he looked down at his watch, then waved his hand to ask everyone present not to speak, he stretched out his hand to dim the lights in the room, so that they could see the situation in Room No. 2 more clearly - after hearing a "boom" sound of the gate being opened, a group of people wearing protective clothing walked into the room from the side of the room, each of them carried a box in his hand, and one of them walked to the window where they were, Gesturing to the people inside, he opened the box, which contained about twenty needles filled with a light blue liquid.
"Alfinu Antidote," Zhao Heng's voice sounded a little nervous, "When the state wanted to release this batch of antidotes, it put forward an additional requirement that no matter what the final result is, the United States must share the scientific research process and results with us completely and unreservedly, which is also an important reason why we can walk around here unhindered - now that I think about it, the guy who made this request really has the name of foresight, otherwise the benefits will not be taken away." ”
Fu Shen didn't quite understand what Zhao Heng meant by "benefits".
But then, before he had time to think much about what Zhao Heng's words meant, the young man's attention was attracted by the real member who took out a needle and pierced it into the egg-I don't know why, watching those light blue liquids being pushed into the thick scale armor, even the cocoon god himself began to become nervous.
However, it is not like in the film that the sky should fall apart next, in fact, after the night of the injection, nothing happened to those eggs for the time being.
After the staff in protective suits injected each antidote into each of the scales one by one, they packed up their things and exited the room again. When the door of the real yàn room was completely closed, Fu Shen glanced at the time, and was surprised to find that the whole process lasted for nearly two hours, and during these two hours, he almost maintained a posture, pressed his face against the glass and carefully watched the whole process.
glanced at the side, and found that Zhao Heng and Yucheng were probably tired of watching it after watching for a while, and they were sitting on the sofa next to them drinking coffee and chatting in a low voice, compared to the cocoon who was standing upright by the glass window...... The stark contrast made Fu Shen feel a little embarrassed for a moment, and he took his face off the glass, cleared his throat, turned around, and saw the beautiful child in the wheelchair behind him, looking at him with a sneering expression on his face.
The moment the cocoon god turned around, he moved his lips and said silently in the shape of his mouth: Chu-Bo-Shi reads;.
The cocoon god walked to the wheelchair, bent down, pinched the pretty little face expressionlessly, and pulled it to the side - the malicious smile was immediately pinched and deformed, Enochhe muttered "let go of the pain", but the cocoon god was not ready to pay attention to him, until this time Yucheng, who was sitting on the sofa, accidentally looked up and seemed to see something, and his eyes lit up and shouted "Look", the cocoon god was slightly stunned, let go of Enoche, and immediately turned around and reattached himself to the glass-
Such a quick response made him lucky not to miss the first change in those eggs!
First of all, the gap between those scales is expanding, the speed of blood flow is accelerating, the viscous liquid "clicks" and falls to the ground, and soon the blood on the ground under the egg gathers into a small river and extends around, these blood flows are too much, the cocoon god looked back at Zhao Heng with some uneasiness, the latter seemed to have received his distress signal, as if he thought this high school student was very interesting, and rarely showed a little smile: "Normal phenomenon." ”
The cocoon god let out a long breath and turned his head again.
At this time, some of the eggs that had been hanging quietly on the ceiling began to shake slightly, like chicks would struggle in the eggs before they broke their shells, and the "people" wrapped in those eggs probably began to wake up from their slumber, and they were probably trying to start to break away from the closed egg - this struggle made the eggs not only start to shake, but the speed of blood flow became faster, and the gap between the scales was pulled wider, as was the case with the egg closest to them. I saw that the gap between the scales, which was originally only about the width of a needle, had been pulled to the width of an adult's finger, and the egg itself was stretched into a pale pink film, and those scales began to fall off!
At this point, the shaking of the egg became more violent.
The god stared slightly, as if he was afraid that he would miss even the slightest change, and he unblinkingly observed the egg closest to him......
Suddenly, an adult human's palm shape protruded from the place where the egg was stretched into a membrane!
The god was startled, the whole person shrank back, he squinted slightly, and before he could realize what it was, instead of the previous palm, this time a fist appeared, and the knuckles of the human fist could be clearly seen from the membrane covering!
The egg began to shake violently.
The fist turned into a palm, and presumably the man inside the egg tried to pierce the film with his fingers, and he began to scratch-
"Why don't you have the staff help them cut through these barriers?"
"Will you help the oviparous animals break the shells of their eggs to get them out?"
“……”
The answer, of course, is no, because such "help" may cause incomplete development or even disability to the young animals.
"Isn't it amazing that every soldier has to go through the process of survival of the fittest, like the survival of the fittest for them for the last time?" Zhao Heng said, "After experiencing the replacement of the energy-supplying cells of the whole body by the energy-supplying cells of plants, they began to learn photosynthesis, and then the cell walls of these plants disappeared, and the cells re-became animal cells while maintaining the function of photosynthesis - finally, as mammals, human beings have to experience the shelling of oviparous plants before completing their last evolution." ”
The sound in the real room could not be heard through the glass, but the god imagined that it was probably a soft sound of "tearing", and the strong hand finally broke through the membrane and appeared in their sight - a strong hand, the muscles were perfectly distributed on the bones, the healthy wheat skin could faintly see the human hair, and on the wrist, there was also an electronic watch.
Funnily enough, the electronic watch suddenly lit up, and the alarm clock of "Dididi" rang non-stop, reminding everyone that it was already four o'clock in the morning.
The viscous transparent liquid splashed on the glass window with the tearing of the egg body, and Zhao Heng pressed the key glass window on a certain wall and immediately began to clean itself to maintain clarity, at the same time, the egg started from the initial crack, and the crack became bigger and bigger, until behind one hand, a foot stretched out of the egg, and then the head of an adult male with a dark flax color-
"If you don't cover your body, what kind of body will you become." Yucheng covered his eyes, and then opened a slit with two fingers to peek inside, "Why are their clothes so torn?" ”
Zhao Heng: "It's eroded." ”
Yucheng: "But the watch is still ringing!" ”
Zhao Heng: "Who will I ask if you ask me?" ”
The man who fell out of the egg looked to be in his early thirties, about 1.75 meters tall, and although his face was covered in a viscous transparent liquid, it did not prevent people from seeing the newly grown beard on his chin that had not had time to be disposed of—and the clothes on his body, as Tong Yucheng said, were completely tattered, as if they had been eroded...... He completely detached from the egg, and the huge mass fell firmly into the blood on the ground, and suddenly the viscous liquid of various colors enveloped his whole body!
"It's kind of disgusting." Yucheng commented, "Is this picture considered the eighteen prohibitions?" Enochie, cocoon-san, close your eyes. ”
No one paid any attention to him, because at this time, more and more eggs were torn and broken in the real room, and people of completely different heights, hair colors, skin colors, and even races fell out of the eggs, and each of them slammed into the ground, first curled into a ball, and then as time passed, their limbs began to move.
The person closest to them twitched his hands and feet, as if for a moment he was very uncomfortable with his body and drove four more long things, he seemed to have forgotten how to act as a normal person, and he tried to get up by holding the ground with his hands, but soon, he fell back to the ground again!
"They need some time to adjust to their new environment, and ...... New body. Zhao Heng said.
The god nodded, and was about to continue to observe the progress of these soldiers, during which he accidentally caught a glimpse of Enoch sitting next to him - at this time, he suddenly thought of something: after the child in front of him completed the entire "evolution" and reawakened, he changed from Enoch to "Six", so would the soldiers in front of him also ......
But soon, he found that his worries were unnecessary.
The soldier who was the first to break out of the egg got up from the ground, and stood in the viscous blood, he seemed to be a little unsteady on his feet—he looked around with a seemingly blank look, the "colleagues" who were struggling on the ground, whether standing or sitting, or simply lying on the ground, with a hint of confusion in those blue eyes......
He raised his hand and began to look at his arm: it seemed to confirm that the pustules that had bothered him before were gone from time to time, and soon, by the hint of surprise and delight in his eyes, he got the answer he wanted.
After the initial confirmation, he began to learn to look around - first of all, his own condition, he grabbed the sticky liquid from his hair, and after seeing the liquid, he probably let out a disgusting moan. Moan, his face shook off the viscous liquid with disgust - he was about to wipe the liquid off the clothes on his body, but found that he was also covered in the body, he helplessly raised his hands high, surrounded him, and began to shout at the surroundings blankly, looking at the mouth shape probably-
"What's going on here?"
"Hey, anyone? Where am I? ”
"Am I dead, stinking shit, I don't believe heaven looks like this! If it really is, I'm a non-believer from today onwards;! ”
After a few moments, as if noticing something, he suddenly stopped shouting, looked in a certain direction, gave a delighted look, and staggered over to a black man in the middle of the room who was staggering to sit up, presumably still calling his friend's name as he ran......
He ran to him, stretched out his hand, and pulled him up from the ground, and after a brief moment of surprise on the negro, the two looked at each other and laughed as if they realized something, and then embraced him warmly.
All the soldiers who have broken out of their eggs are recovering their new life.
The scene makes people feel excited.
-- At this time, the sound of "boom" sounded again.
As if realizing something, the soldiers, who were rejoicing at their rebirth, subconsciously stopped their short "warm scene" and turned their heads in a certain direction, so under their gaze, the floodgates of the real yàn room were opened, and the group of staff in protective suits appeared again, with cleaning work in their hands, and some simple medical equipment.
They were like fish in the air, and the soldiers surrounded them, gesticulating, as if to explain something to them, and then the soldiers nodded and followed the men out of the room......
Soon, the room, which had been quite lively before, was deserted, leaving only the broken scales hanging on the wall, and a viscous mixture of transparent body and blood.
Zhao Heng put down the coffee cup, got up from the sofa and said, "Okay, the next thing is to go to the physical examination room to observe the final test results of this group of soldiers - you will probably also understand in this link, why I said before that I was almost 'taken advantage of in vain' by the US imperialists." ”
Everyone nodded, and just as the cocoon god wanted to turn around and leave with Zhao Heng and them, his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of it, interspersed between those tattered and broken egg bodies, and it actually ...... A few of the eggs were still intact - some of them were still trembling slightly - but the tremor was so faint that it was impossible to see it if you didn't look closely.
The cocoon god stopped turning around and wanted to leave, and returned to the observation window, and the people who were about to leave also stopped leaving because of his action, turned their heads and seemed to look at him inexplicably, the cocoon god pointed to the window, and said in an uncertain tone; "There are still a few eggs, and the people inside haven't come out yet."
As the god spoke, the eggs were completely stilled after a few last quivering.
There was an unsettling silence in the observation room for a moment.
After a long time, Zhao Heng's calm voice sounded-
"It's not going to come out."
The cocoon god was slightly stunned.
I saw Zhao Heng raise his hand and push his glasses, and then said expressionlessly: "I said just now, survival of the fittest, this means that there are some people who have not been able to survive this last hurdle even with the help of God, and the time for the antidote to take effect is precisely controlled, and if you miss the soldiers who have not come out for this period of time, there is no possibility of coming out of those eggs." ”
“……”
"There will be staff members who will come to pick up their bodies and inform their families." Zhao Heng pushed open the door and said as he walked out, "But compared to dying of the virus, they who have persevered to this point are at least lucky to have a chance to give their families a chance to see the complete body...... Not to mention this, the medical examination center is on the third floor above ground, and the first soldiers are also in that place, if you want me to say, that is the real place to show miracles. ”