The wind and sand were howling, and under the gray-black sky was a huge and huge mountain range, Alatanula.

Located in the northwest of the Bright City, this huge mountain range stretches for thousands of kilometers, with violent ups and downs, surrounded by ravines on the surface, and there are many intricate entrances between the mountains, and for thousands of years, the wind has been blowing on this mountain range like a knife blade, forming a unique natural landscape.

Whenever you look at it, Alatanula looks like a monster sleeping in the night, staring at the city illuminated by the light in the distance.

In the past, there were many small shelters for humans in times of disaster, and many towns were built in windswept areas by the mountains, but now these towns are dilapidated.

In some towns, only traces of the human past can be seen in the weathered ruins.

Crunch

In the wind and sand, a small Changxing black machine with tracks moved slowly in the wind, and in the middle of the long shape was a black semicircular sphere that could be rotated, with many crystals on it, flashing with scarlet light.

Such a machine, which can be seen from time to time around Alatanula, is a small multi-functional monitoring machine, at which point suddenly the scarlet light point in the semicircle is extinguished, and the speed of the track rotation increases, and soon it enters a path cut by the wind.

Crunch

Along with the mechanical walls protruding from both sides of the semicircular sphere, the machinery was directly fixed to a mountain wall deep in the mountain road, and the scarlet light lit up again.

"It's the place."

Jean put down Mo Xiaolazy on his back, at this time Mo Xiaolazy was already shivering from the cold, Jean smiled and looked around, and saw a small mountain that could shelter from the wind and sand, and used the power of the mind to drag Mo Xiaolazy and directly brought her to the leeward side of the mountain.

Grunt

Mo Xiaolazy turned on the kettle and took a big sip, the situation was better, the further north he went, the more the wind and sand got bigger and bigger, it was impossible for anyone to survive in this kind of place.

"Is there really anyone here?"

Jean shook his head, but nodded again, and he lit a cigarette.

"Little lazy, it's not like you said it's better to come here and investigate."

Mo Xiaolazy wanted to lean back in annoyance, but the hard stone hit the back of her head, she stood up, took the backpack from Jean's body, and leaned down comfortably.

From childhood to adulthood, the relationship between Jean and Mo Xiaolazy is not so much a master and apprentice, but more like a friend, Mo Xiaolazy trusts Jean very much, and will tell Jean about everything, from the life of the students in the school, his own affairs, including some of Alpha's thoughts and so on.

Mo Xiaolan is very smart, she knows that Jean wants to know some things about the students, but she can't ask, so Mo Xiaolazy will take the initiative to tell Jean everything.

Over the years, the barrier area has been reduced to a paradise for criminals, and the northern part of the Bright City is a large mountain, named Black Mountain because it is black at all times, and the ravines only last until the north-west section.

There is a section of soil connected to the Barrier Zone, which is the best place for many criminals to escape, and it is also the best place for criminals to sneak back to Bright City.

Although the northern security station is regularly patrolled, the effect is not too ideal, and there are too many ways for the criminals to escape.

The perpetrators are mainly concentrated in the east and south, which have a large number of human settlements in the past, and the wind and sand are smaller than those in the west and north.

The two of them came all the way, and after leaving the south, it was almost inaccessible, and it was difficult to find any signs of human activity, only the wind and sand and the garbage in the wind and sand, as well as the harmful particles that drifted around.

Other places have been investigated in many places, but still no clues have been found, no matter how the criminals in the barrier area are, it is impossible to get potatoes as a crop, although some private take-off and landing aircraft can be used to transport it, but the risk is too high, it is easy to be detected by the 3 branches.

At present, it covers the whole city of the phantom membrane, the only role is to isolate a part of the harmful particles, can slow down the rate of temperature loss, in order to stabilize the climate, other gods are still studying with 10 branches of people, so that the phloric membrane can be set up in a part of the information, so that the phloric membrane can have a monitoring function, so that the moment you enter and exit the city, you can know where and how much volume.

Before the damage can continue to ferment, a solution must be found, which is what Jean has always done.

"Let's go, lazy, let's go around the mountains, and if we can't find anything, we'll go back, at least a minimum."

Mo Xiaolazy pursed his lips, stood up, pulled on his protective mask and sunglasses, and climbed onto Jean's back again.

At this time, in the wind and sand, Mo Xiaolazy caught a glimpse of scarlet, but when he soon looked over, this scarlet disappeared.

Less than a few dozen seconds after the two left, a tracked machine slowly approached, and the light spots on the semicircular surface kept flashing.

A huge underground cavern in the north of the Alatan-Ula Mountains**.

The cavern was no longer noisy, and the doorways of the rooms built along the stone walls were filled with lifeless people.

In the middle of the huge cave, the sun lamps are on, and the large area in the middle is planted with a lot of crops, and many people are working in the fields, and many people look tired.

All of them wear a black collar around their necks, and if they don't obey here, they will be killed in an instant.

Each collar has a red pattern of flame on it, and everyone here is wearing a one-piece coarse cloth coat, and all of them have a red flame pattern printed on their clothes.

On the east side of the cavern, at the top of a huge metal tower built from the bottom up, near the top of the cave was a transparent and polished hood, inside which was a large private rest area, and a man stood on the platform that extended from the cover, overlooking everything below.

This nearly 60-meter-high cave took the Hillman family five years to excavate, and the nearly 4-square-kilometer cave currently has more than 11,000 people, including more than 8,000 men and more than 3,000 women.

The man's name is Erwin. Hillman, Eddie's cousin, is also the highest person in charge here.

It has also changed from freedom to absolute control, and many criminals used to think that this was a happy land, but three years ago, this life came to an abrupt end, and from the moment they were forced to wear a collar and have to obey all orders from the Hillman family, they felt fear and found that they were nothing more than the Hillman family's experimental subjects.

Crunch

Erwin, who had been completely transformed into a machine, opened the baffle in front of his left eyeball, and the moment the inner spiral baffle opened, Erwin's head had already received the video footage from the external detection and monitoring machine, and he laughed slightly.

"Sure enough, someone will find here."

Erwin smiled pleasantly, a long time ago, under the planning of Prometheus, there were already all kinds of countermeasures, as long as someone started to investigate, this place could be closed in an instant, and it was almost impossible to find this place.

Erwin turned and walked through the room, and when he walked out of the room, there was an empty hall opposite, and people in white clothes, masks, and various tools in their hands were busy at the operating table.

Men and women lying on the operating table, their bodies cut open, and their eyes wide open and unable to move, are undergoing mechanical surgery.

All the materials used for the transformation can be obtained from the mineral deposits of this mountain range, and the Hillman family has developed a new alloy suitable for the human body, which is the best material for performing cyborg humans, and has been perfectly experimented with in the city.

These people are also implanted with brain-controlled chips, and everything in their bodies is controlled by the chips implanted in their heads, not their brains.

By collecting all the daily body data and behavior data of these people, they are written into the brain-controlled chip, and the brain-controlled chip controls their bodies, as if they are possessed by ghosts, although they have thoughts and can speak, but their bodies are not controlled by their independent thoughts.

This is the mechanical modification technology that the Hillman family acquired from X, and it is impossible to convert the electrochemical signals of the brain into signals that control the body, because it is impossible to create a connecting medium comparable to that of human nerve fibers.

There is no such thing as a material that can perfectly combine a cold thing like a machine with a living thing.

Although Prometheus has a relatively complete theory, it is difficult to implement.

Nowadays, the transformation of human beings is the transformation of the whole body into a machine except for the head, which is an extremely painful and difficult process.

All of this is to prepare for the future transformation of the robot upgrade, implanting the personality and the human brain directly controlling the mechanical body, which is the main research direction of the Hillman family in the future.

Drip, drip, drip

Erwin looked at the man on an operating table who had died in the middle of the operation, and he walked over, glanced at the data on the light shadow screen, and then at the mechanical modification doctor.

"This is already your 5th failure, think clearly, if your failure rate is more than 6 percent, you will be the next to be transformed."

The person in front of him trembled, and the scalpel in his hand fell to the ground, Erwin looked at it and said with a smile.

"The material is recycled and the rest is put directly into the nutrient production pool."

Many people around looked at everything in front of them with trepidation, carefully doing the work in their hands.

Erwin left the hall on the top floor after a round tour, and took the elevator down to the middle floor, and as soon as the elevator door opened, Erwin saw many women wearing white loose coats and big bellies.

Some doctors were checking their physical condition, and after a casual look around, Erwin turned around and went to the floor below, where men and women with tags on their bodies were being taken to the designated rooms.

Screening the genes of the best men and women, then having them create the next generation, and then training the next generation to become scientific researchers, is the beginning of the next huge project of the Hillman family.

In long-term experiments, the Hillman family found that people with double Y chromosomes have an almost 100% chance of becoming mutants, and they can grow into powerful mutants in a short period of time.

Nowadays, the transformation surgery of mutants is extremely safe, and the transformation of mutants is only semi-mechanized, and in order to improve the combat ability of mutants, ordinary people are mechanized by the whole body.

Erwin came to fight a big room again, many men and women who looked strong, wearing neck rings, exercising their bodies on a sports machine, which is also the most effective way to produce mutants today, breaking through the limits of human physical ability, alienation genes will appear in the human body, and thus grow into mutants.

Erwin went to the talent development classroom again, and it was full of school-age children who were taking science education courses.

The entire facility was running normally, Elwin smiled pleasantly, Eddie's orders were absolute and must be obeyed, this was the perception of the entire Hillman family.

"Tomorrow a new batch of criminals should be sent over, but you still have to be careful."

Erwin said with his mouth slightly open, a row of metal teeth gleaming in the faint light, and he strode out of the cylindrical tower, as many of the people who were working quickened their movements.

Once Erwin was also a loser, in the Hillman family, just a humble loser, since Eddie got everything in the Hillman family, all this has changed, in the past, those countless crazy ideas in Erwin's head have been put into practice, Eddie also appreciates Erwin's style of doing things, so he handed it over to him.

Over the years, Erwin has taken care of everything here very well from the beginning of construction, and in the city Erwin has died of disease.

In the past, Erwin still had some nostalgia for the past, but now he no longer thinks about it, the huge plan of the Hillman family is the existence of Erwin worth everything, and the magnificent and long-lasting huge and beautiful country built by Eddie is also the place where most of the current Hillman family finally want to go.

bite

At this moment, a bullet was coldly shot out of the pistol held by a working worker, very close, only less than 5 meters away from Erwin, a very small pistol, after firing a shot, the pistol exploded in the worker's hand, he looked at Erwin's broken brain in horror, no blood flowed, the bullet sank in, but the bullet had been completely flattened.

Still smiling, Erwin pulled the bullet out of his head, metal under his skin.

"Die!"

The worker angrily rushed towards Erwin with a hoe, and he looked at the bullet in his hand and walked as if nothing was wrong.

The worker in front of him fell to the ground in pain, spitting blood from his mouth, already dead, the back of his head was blurred with blood, and the splattered blood had just hit the ground.

Like Eddie himself, Erwin himself has a chip in his head that can recognize brain signals, and can kill anyone with a brain chip in his head with his mind, and can also recognize visual signals in other people's heads and convert them into his own head.

"Keep working!"

Erwin said lightly, and soon some cyborg creatures floated over, and they quickly packed up everything and left with the dead man.

Erwin made his way to the west side of the cavern, and after entering a long passage, he came to a large metal room.

There is a large spherical machine in the room, with a large number of crystals on it, and the synthesis of high-energy photons is going on inside the machine, and the experiment has not been smooth, although the department has launched a photonuclear weapon, and the data inferred from the lethality of the high-energy photons released on the site is extremely unstable.

Most of the people who work here are researchers from the Hillman Corporation, who have died in the city.

This is what the Hillman family must accomplish now, and it is the only effective means of confronting the gods when the future is exposed.

"It's almost time, you can rest."

Erwin said, and the researchers, who were still observing the data in front of some light and shadow screens in the research room, turned around and walked to the bottom room with relief.

Erwin glanced at it, and it was just three o'clock.

"I'll remind Eddie next time I contact you, it's better to solve the trouble of X as soon as possible."

Erwin has made such suggestions to Eddie many times, since X began to cooperate with Eddie, Erwin felt that it would be better to get rid of this guy as soon as possible, although the current mechanical biochemical transformation technology was obtained from X's hands, but such a threat was placed around him, and it would have an impact on the overall plan of the Hillman family.

Eddie is now entangled in the technology that X holds that can tamper with human memories and implant memories, which is very much desired by the Hillman family.

"After all, a threat is a threat, and it's better to get rid of it as soon as possible."

3:06 a.m

Moore sullenly left the private classroom and returned to the lounge area outside the classroom, looking around at his classmates, who were all his cousin or cousin, and he was the youngest.

Everyone's face was a little unhappy, Moore didn't like these things very much, but everyone was the same, was forced to study here every day by his uncle Eddie, and he had to hide it from his mother Ran Yu when he went back.

At this time, Moore looked at the pendant that was slightly hot on his chest, looked left and right, entered the bathroom, sat on the toilet and locked the door.

"Teach me what to do to get through the next lessons!"

Moore said, the pendant shimmered slightly, and a voice appeared.

"It's a very simple question, you just need to follow what I say, and you can pass the test without any problems, but Moore has to do me a little favor this time."

Moore nodded.

The pendant that I bought in Angel Paradise on my chest before was when Moore was distressed to do the problem one night, he suddenly spoke, guiding Moore to complete all the problems, and now Moore's grades have improved, and the time to play can also be increased, which is what Moore needs most now, he is not very smart in the first place, and he can't always learn something.

Moore also knew who was supposed to be in this pendant and what kind of machinery was put in, but he didn't care so much, because now the voice in this pendant could help him.

"I need you to go to the lowest level of the underground."

"No, we can't go down there, and it will be miserable if our uncle finds out."

There was a laugh from the pendant.

"You just have to do what I say, and no one will find out."

Moore was thinking of what his uncle Eddie had said that if he could finish the month, he would be able to go to his grandfather's house with his mother.

Moore was very fond of his grandfather, and would always tell him something funny, and he would also take him to play.

"How?"

"But not today, but after a long time, you just need to do what I say, and slowly you can go to the bottom of the ground, okay, you have to remember what you tell you next, and you can pass the test at noon."

Moore nodded happily, there were many things Moore couldn't tell his mother, because Uncle Eddie had said that if his mother knew, he would only be able to become like them, and they would never be able to leave here for the rest of their lives.

3:23 p.m

The people's anxious mood also erupted along with the hot weather, and many people spontaneously came to the vicinity of the district power office, wanting to wait for the introduction of a new round of tax distribution rules.

Some people want to increase subsidies for education, others want to increase medical care, and some people feel that the subsidies for newborns are too low and should be increased.

Most self-employed people want to be able to increase subsidies for their own industries.

At this time, many people saw a woman with a bunch of children, large and small, holding a sign in their hands.

We want to live! Please help us.

Many people know that this woman is the operator of the local orphanage, Liu Ting, who has repeatedly gone to the district authority to ask for social welfare subsidies for the orphanage, but many times she can only rely on some donations from the councillors to maintain the daily maintenance and expenses of the orphanage with more than 200 orphans under her hands.

This is a middle-level district, and the cost of more than 200 orphans a month is as high as 40,000 yuan, which is not something Liu Ting can afford.

Liu Ting directly took more than 50 children into the hall of the district office, and the staff of the district office did not drive them away, but were busy bringing them some water and snacks.

Liu Ting has to wait for the results here, even if it is a little, the economic situation in this area is very good, as long as 1% can be divided, the orphanage can be maintained.

Several councillors in the district have promised to speak for them in Congress, and Liu Ting wants to get the money as soon as the results come out.

Many people on the street looked at it coldly.

"The child always can't eat, she always comes to us to ask for donations, and who is not a money factory."

"Yes, I also donated a few times and then ran out of money, so I quickly sent these children to the economically better area."

Many people sitting in the shops on the street talked about it, and at first everyone was quite supportive of this matter, but after Liu Ting begged again and again, everyone began to get bored.

In the end, the reason for the emergence of so many orphans is the trouble caused by most irresponsible parents, which most people think used to be slightly better, but after a strong market rectification carried out by the bureau, most of the orphanage workshops can only be closed.

Dangerous substances, drugs in the past, when the department was not organized, many orphanages were involved.

"It's tough though! But there will always be a way, and we are currently actively preparing to send some children whose parents are already in prison to 12 subjects, so that their parents can go there and work. ”

Latis said, and Freya on the other side shook her head.

"This can't solve the problem of His Excellency Latis, a city's attitude towards the weak determines how far the city can go, these marginalized problems, orphans, helpless, mentally ill, black households, these are all marginalized people born under the urban system, only a trace of mercy can be used, can change a lot of things, although the people may not be able to accept it in a short time, but these problems will be cured little by little, just like what His Excellency Alpha said before!"

Latis shook his head.

"Councilor Freya, this kind of approach, in order to not be able to agree, such a social problem, is a problem that your councilor's faction should solve, instead of using city taxes to solve it, this approach puts the cart before the horse, customize an industry for them that can allow the orphanage to survive, and social mercy, this is what you should do, you have to consider the majority of people."

Freya stared quietly at the people around her, this issue has been discussed for a long time, and the issue of marginalization still has not reached any conclusion, but it is clear that there are many people who disagree.

Because of this, there are nearly 600,000 people who do not have any output value, which is a terrifying number, and if the tax is given to these people 100 yuan per month, it is 60 million, which can already catch up with the annual profits of several large enterprises.

"I'm not saying that we need to use taxes all the time to help them, it's just an urgent need, everyone has a time when they are helpless, and what to do when people have nothing to do? I know this is Congress, and I shouldn't be talking like that, but ....... From the standpoint of human nature, I think this is the only criterion to measure, and if you don't save yourself, these marginalized problems will only create more problems. ”

At this time, Alpha stood up and walked slowly to the stage, and Latis smiled and turned to get off the stage.

"The problem is deep no matter what, and such a dilemma is not the focus of this issue, Freya!"

Freya nodded.

"The point is how they want to live, just rely on taxes, if it can be solved by just using taxes, we don't need to argue here today, and directly setting aside 5% of the tax can solve the problem of these marginalized people."

"It's all about keeping them alive!"

Freya said, smiling with joy, and at this time, Wu Qun, who was behind Freya, let out a long breath and looked at the family members, businessmen, and most of the celebrities.

"I see!"

Eddie smiled, looking at the two smiling in front of him, he tilted his head.

"It's just a farce!"