Chapter 138: Humanity Has Struggled

White Mist reads the file.

Because of the synthesis of the complete file, the content of this file is much more detailed than the various fragmented versions seen before.

There is a lot of content in the archives, but there is no scholarly discussion. It's just a memoir.

A memoir of the leader of a group of scientists at Lamp Grove Technology.

Although it doesn't involve too much specialized knowledge, this file is still valuable, and it is so valuable that Bai Wu thinks ...... It shouldn't be sold for only hardware.

It's like Dan Laere's diary, like Hong Yin's archive, or Lou Xiaoping's notes.

Every time he touches these things, Bai Mist knows that he will see the desperate and distorted past of human beings in the last days.

But this time it's different, this time it's just pure text, and the white mist won't have an immersive feeling.

It's just that the various clues I saw before have already made Bai Wu know part of the content before he looked at this file.

……

……

In May 2105, Xuanhui City.

Today is the day the box opens for me.

My competitor, Xie Yingjie, played a boring joke on me.

He said that there are superpowered humans in this world, haha.

As ridiculous as it was, he invited me in a very provocative way, mocking my paranoid perception of science.

He said something that didn't make sense:

"If a person stares at a spoon and the spoon suddenly bends, how should the force analysis be calculated? You also know that there are four basic interactions in this world – gravitational force, electromagnetic force, strong interaction, and weak interaction. So back to the question, if the spoon is bent, what kind of force is it? ”

"Lao Tao, let me tell you, how fragile this world is, so fragile that as long as a little power disappears, the whole world will collapse, or as long as there is an unknown force, the world will fall into the end."

I thought it was looking for me, but in the afternoon of the same day, I received a call from the Denglin headquarters, asking me to rush over.

When I boarded the company's plane, Xie Yingjie was there, and he laughed at me as always, but it also sounded self-deprecating:

"Old Tao, we may ...... There will be a great confusion, because the next thing we have to deal with may be a physical system that we have never seen before. Oh, I forgot, you're good at biology, we're not in the same field. ”

Yes, Xie Yingjie and I are not in the same field, but we don't have any friends with each other, because our style of acting is always said to be like a machine, and we have no taste.

Mocking each other was our only pastime, and we mocked each other in such a place for a few years and became friends.

……

2115, May, Denglin City.

I don't know how to explain what happened on this day, but it is true that I studied biology, and I know that the operation of cells, birth, aging, sickness and death are all based on existing physical rules.

But all this ...... Collapsed.

It's not just the spoon that bends, it's my perception of the world.

Today I met a boy, a girl. They all have weird names and seem to be brother and sister?

One is called Well Four and the other is called Well Six.

This is obviously telling me that there are at least four siblings, and of course it doesn't matter.

The important thing is that Jing Liu, who is obviously just a ten-year-old girl, told me in an empty tone-

"Your mother is watching the news about the Xuanhui Guardians at this moment, and the news is about strange temperature changes in some areas. There has been a strange weather change on Heijin Island, with the highest temperature exceeding 74 degrees, and rescue operations have been launched on the island. ”

Of course I didn't believe it, but everyone told me to call my mother and ask, and at the same time, Iroku told me that I would hear my mother's screams first.

Sure enough, the moment the phone was connected, I heard my mother's screams because a crow outside the window hit the glass of my house.

At this moment, I realized that what they said was true, and that Iroku could see the future. My mother was actually watching the news.

But why is that? Is it some kind of disorder of space-time rules, is it some kind of light wave that produces hysteresis?

But for me today, it is not only this that shocks, but also Jing Si, who is two years older than Jing Liu, shows another subversive power.

They invited me to visit a white rat that was bigger than a medium-sized dog, which I thought was some kind of exotic animal.

As we got closer, it hit the tempered glass frantically. Until Well Four approached, it revealed fear.

Immediately after that, Isi was in the laboratory and performed a magic trick, which I can only call magic......

Because a mouse used for the experiment has mutated at a speed that is strangely visible to the naked eye.

This made me doubt what I was learning about biology. But they seem to want to see me go crazy on the spot before they give upβ€”

That rat's mutation isn't over, damn it, how do I describe it? Mechanization?

Yes, mechanized.

I was devastated, as if I had been betrayed by the gods I believed in.

……

2115, May, Denglin City.

For the next few days, I was in a state of confusion. I suspect everything is a huge scam.

It's a joke against me. After all, I am unapproachable, annoying, and always nagging about efficiency and science.

But everyone present at that time was not a person who could make such a joke, even Xie Yingjie, a bastard, was a very serious person about academics.

I can now imagine that when he said those words to me, he may have experienced a deeper shock and confusion.

So in the end, it was Xie Yingjie who comforted him...... There are also well four and well six.

I will always remember what Lao Xie said to his two children that day.

"Study us."

"I see that the person who really brings hope to this world is not you, but you are indeed the inheritor, I can't see the future for too long, but in the future, there will be someone who will save this world because of your plan."

"Save the world?"

These four words came so abruptly that I felt like I was suddenly in some clichΓ© movie scene.

But Xie Yingjie said:

"Actually, in the beginning, our ancestors didn't understand mathematics, they didn't understand physics, they didn't understand anything, as if we didn't understand their power. But we can learn slowly, can't we? As long as we continue to study, we will definitely find the mystery of this power. ”

No one can imagine the encouragement given to me by this sentence, yes, such a complex scientific system has been studied by giants one by one, why can't we continue this legend now standing on the shoulders of giants?

Maybe some great catastrophe is coming, and I'd rather solve this new problem than enjoy the rest of my life!

"Study us, we will cooperate with all the experiments, as long as we can find the secrets of our bodies before the greater catastrophe comes, before that tower appears."

What is a tower?

Jing 4 and Jing 6 refused to tell me because it was meaningless content.

I later learned that the tower was a last resort for humanity, a killer weapon for humanity to give up resistance.

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2117, November, Denglin City.

The experiment has not progressed, and as of now, the abilities shown by Well Four and Well Six are still full of mysteries.

I even invited Jing Roku separately and asked her to observe the future, whether we will solve their riddles in the future.

Jing Liu nodded and said:

"Unraveled."

"So how the hell is it unraveled?"

I wondered, if the future me solved the puzzle on them, and Jingroku was able to know the future, why not just get the answer from the future me?

Just like her previous prophecy.

It's just that everything is just as I feared, and it was prevaricated by the four words butterfly effect.

This is a very contradictory thing for me, if the purpose of Jing Liu is to - hope that we will study her and Jing Si and find their secrets, and we in the future do solve these mysteries, then she, as a person who can know the future, does not mean that she already knows the answer?

So why ask us?

Or is it ...... She lied to us?

……

2118 year.

No result. The amount of money given above is a lot, even more than last year, and it can be expected that it will be even higher next year.

They obviously wanted to be able to master the power of Jing Six and Jing Four, and if this power was used in the war, it would be invincible.

For this reason, I also talked to Ishiroku Ichiroku, and Iyuki was pessimistic about this, saying that there will be no war, because there will be something more terrible than war that will wipe out all possibilities.

Jing Liu believes that there will be people who will turn the tide, because of the future she sees.

Year 2119.

Funding is increasing.

It seems to have something to do with the presence of monsters in some areas, and Isai's temper has changed a little, and this kid sometimes looks at us with a look that scares us.

That gaze was like ...... Looking at the food.

No, perhaps more indifferent than that, with a certain confusion.

So far, Jing 4 and Jing 6 have refused to disclose the news of the other four people, and we are not even sure whether Jing 1, Jing 2, Jing 3, and Jing 5 exist.

They were really tight-lipped about these four guys who might not exist, and every time they talked about the topic, the brother and sister stopped talking.

If they exist, what kind of abilities do they have?

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Year 2120.

The funding is still increasing, and the original mutation and degeneration have caused many people to laugh.

But now, many of these people who have laughed at it have begun to study it.

Because the word evil has appeared in the people's ears and ears. Just as my cognition was subverted at the beginning, the existence of evil depravity has also begun to subvert the cognition of everyone in this world.

We must speed up the research process and we must find a way to deal with the evil. Because Iroku told us that time was running out.

Year 2121.

We have made our first progress.

With Xie Yingjie's help, we created a way to make the evil fall produce a weak light, although it seems that it came a little late now, because these monsters have appeared on the outskirts of various cities.

And there is no way for us to make humans, who have become monsters, develop this weakness. We can only do it before it turns into a monster...... Do it.

This is also Xie Yingjie's theory, in his opinion, if biology can be mechanized, then in the face of the evil fall of mechanization, we have no way to use biological means, unless...... We planted weaknesses before they became machines, when they were still humans.

It seemed like an impossible thing to do, but we experimented and found that it could do......

If someone is injected with the reagent we have developed beforehand, even if the person has a mechanical change, he will still be afraid of light.

Of course, this is something we can't understand, but now we don't need to understand, Xie Yingjie and I seem to be businessmen now, and we just need to see tangible benefits.

Year 2122.

More and more cities have been devastated, albeit suppressed because of their scarcity.

One thing we found was that there was a very different difference between inside the city and outside the city. Although there are people in the city who mutate, the size of the number is not worth mentioning compared to the outside.

It's as if ...... There is a certain regional limitation, the city is the inner circle, which is a mild deviant area, while the outer ring of the city is the outer circle, which is a highly deviant area.

This is still something we can't understand, and Jing Si and Jing Liu don't know either.

And Jing Si is getting more and more irritable.

Jing Liu's reassurance is still valid, and the future she foresees is that there will be a savior, and this savior carries an antibody!

An antibody that can completely insulate evil from degeneration!

But it seems to me that Jingliu may indeed be able to see the future, but definitely not too far into the future, otherwise why wouldn't she tell us the answer?

She's just cheating on Jing Si.

But it doesn't matter, Jing Si can settle down, and it will all be good for us, after all, every time he gets angry, this building will have biological mutations.

Sometimes it's something else, sometimes it's people.

Year 2123.

The world has become strange, research funding has suddenly decreased a lot, masked knights have begun to deal with evil in the city, and many strange cults have appeared.

Xie Yingjie told me that the tower appeared, in fact, he told me last year. He's even been inside.

He told me that the Tower was strange, like a place where all the rules of change could be cut off.

Our sacred system of physics is still sacred in the Tower.

I scoffed at it.

"Accept the reality Xie Yingjie! In the past, we were just frogs living in the well, and we accidentally saw the world outside the well, and the tower was just another well! Do you want to go back to the well? ”

Xie Yingjie was persuaded by me, but most people have become impetuous, in fact, since last year, they have been very anxious, they want air tickets, they want ferry tickets.

But Iroku extinguished their hopes at the time.

"The plane is inhabited by my kind, and that plane doesn't reach the end, it just goes into the loop."

"Cruises? That's a scam. Time is running out, and all you have to do is to keep studying us and find our secrets. ”

But as many people entered the tower, there were many happy reports from the tower......

There are fewer and fewer people who are willing to study evil together.

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Year 2124.

Another group of people left, some looking for shelter, some looking for the tower.

I didn't go, Xie Yingjie didn't go.

Jing Si became more and more irritable, and there were already six young people in the company who were infected and turned into monsters, and were finally killed by Jing Liu.

Of course, their corpses have become the fodder for our study of depravity.

Xie Yingjie and I ...... Neither of us is a good person to deal with people, and we can't understand the many complex emotions between human beings, but we feel the troubles of Jing Si.

He's plagued by pressure, just like me and Xie Yingjie. We have to find a way to stop the evil from bothering us.

As for the strange rules of this world, they can only be studied after the evil fall has been expelled.

We created a new laboratory for Jing Si, and Jing Si also had three weaknesses.

After all these years, we have finally found a way to make the Evil Fall weak. This is the result of our joint efforts.

We believe that one day, human beings will be able to overcome and expel evil by their own strength.

Year 2125.

It's been a year for everyone. Because Jingsi is getting more and more terrifying, the city is becoming more and more terrifying.

We need manpower, security guards, cleaning staff, cooks, doctors, even scientific researchers, electricians......

The tower has attracted too many people. Only Xie Yingjie and I have been working hard to study the secret of the evil fall.

In order to speed things up, we had to bring in some people, and for that, we had to tell a lie......

Denglin Technology Branch, Denglin Technology Headquarters, has studied the secret of evil fall here, and here, human beings will not be troubled by evil fall.

In fact, half of this lie is true.

Due to the existence of Jing Si Jing Liu, the evil fall did not dare to approach here at all. As long as Jing Si doesn't go crazy, the people here are indeed not worried about becoming evil.

In this way, after getting in touch with the top to no avail, I and the last forty or so scientists decided to continue our research.

It's just that...... I also have a hunch that in the end, there may not be much of us left.

Year 2126.

In the year of forgetting to sleep and eat, Xie Yingjie and I both knew that time was really running out.

There was a mess outside the company, and many people who were researching together couldn't hold on, and the big guys began to get sick frequently.

Some of the more emotional colleagues became depressed and depressed.

We have completely lost contact with the above, and the information we can receive is basically unlimited calls for help set up by other cities.

Everyone was short of supplies, and Xie Yingjie and I had to make a change, we only ate one meal a day. Even in the midst of suffering, he calculated the minimum nutrient intake needed to keep the brain thinking.

A young colleague asked me, is it worth it? Didn't the Tower invite me before?

I don't care if it's worth it or not, I just know ...... The Tower is not a safe haven, it is just a premeditated existence.

And Xie Yingjie and I will definitely think of a way to expel the evil depravity!

Year 2127.

In the first half of the year, I came up with a conjecture.

If we simulated the brain waves of human beings when they were afraid, or when they were angry and sad, would we be able to satisfy the evil depravity?

Will this be able to make the Evil Fall give up attacking humanity?

When I came up with this hypothesis, all my peers looked at me in amazement......

At that moment I was convinced that we had finally found our way! Even a material problem that bothered us was solved!

Cities become chaotic and dilapidated, and people resist evil and compete for resources.

But what surprised me was...... Every morning, there is food at the door of the company. The food was placed in a conspicuous position, and the people who went around looting the house did not come to grab it.

At that moment, I realized one thing, we haven't been given up yet. At least the people of this city are still supporting us!

This gives us great excitement and encouragement.

It's just that this encouragement is like a return to the light before destruction comes.

The situation of Jing Si is getting worse and worse.

His relationship with Jing Roku has been declining, because Jing Si also seems to feel that Jing Roku is lying to us.

All good futures are fake, and what awaits us is perhaps only destruction?

I shouldn't have thought that...... In particular, I have come up with an idea to expel the wicked, but this idea ......

It may never be possible.

Because of the second half of the year...... Xie Yingjie left, he went to the tower.

Before leaving, he told me that the tower would be closed in a year, and that if I promised him to go to the tower with me now, I would be invited directly to the fifth floor.

I know what the fifth floor is, and I know what it means to close the tower.

I didn't feel happy in the slightest. My whole life has been impersonal, like a machine in the pursuit of knowledge.

My mother once said that I only cried when I was born, and in the following decades, I never had such emotions, because immersing myself in the world of academia made me very happy, and it was difficult for me to empathize with human life, old age, sickness, death and feelings.

But at this moment, I felt a little blockage in my chest.

Why are the people who have left me at this time...... Could it be him? Without Xie Yingjie's help, how could this idea be realized?

I still remember his last words:

"The prophecies are all deceitful to us! There is no savior! Our efforts will not bear fruit, so let's hide in the well and be frogs again! Lao Tao, come with me! We are only human beings, and it is impossible for us to deal with this sudden force! Life is only a hundred years! Why do we have to bear such a big responsibility? ”

Even in 2115, when I saw Jing 4 and Jing 6, I never felt so bad.

"Let's go, if we stay here...... You won't live long. ”

Yes, at the rate at which the world's various physical rules mutate, I may soon become a monster.

But...... I don't want to go!

Life is only a hundred years, you should live in the present, Xie Yingjie, I hope you can find your own peace in the tower.

And what can calm me in this world is what you said to me in 2115-

As long as we continue to study, we will definitely find the mystery of this power.

……

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Bai Wu quickly finished reading this memoir, and he quickly became confused-

Is the owner of this game area Jing Roku or Mr. Tao?

Now he wasn't sure the answer, so his mind went back to the memoir.

Life is only a hundred years, but in fact, Mr. Tao does not know that many people who have entered the fifth floor of the tower have an endless lifespan.

Bai Wu suddenly thought that maybe Xie Yingjie was still alive.

Maybe on the fifth floor of the tower, there is also a Xie family manor.

Mr. Tao's only friend in his life, how would he feel if he learned about Mr. Tao's fate and determination, and the contents of this document?

There is no white fog of negative emotions, and once again I feel empty inside.

There is no doubt that Mr. Tao has failed.

Even if Xie Yingjie stays, success is slim, in a sense, Xie Yingjie didn't do anything wrong, he just made a choice that most people would make.

In the face of the world mutation, a power that is more exaggerated than divine power, Xie Yingjie gave in, but Mr. Tao did not give in.

One lives in the moment, and the other lives in their own ideals.

It's just that I don't want to leave! It still makes the white mist a little regretful.

"Did you find anything?"

Seeing that Bai Wu came to the door of the archive room, Wujiu asked.

"I know a little bit about the past, but it's not clear if it will come in handy. Let's go, let's move on to the next place. ”