August 15, Building No. 1, District 1, District 1, Suzaku City.

The temperature in August is still extremely high, and even at seven or eight o'clock in the morning, you can already see the heat wave of the scorching sun reflecting off the ground on the streets of the city. However, in the lobby on the top floor of Building 1, the air is flowing at the most pleasant temperature.

Although the top floor of Building 1 is located on the 119th floor of the ground and the height reaches 600 meters, you can overlook the entire city of Ward 1, especially the deep harbor and sparkling sea, which is the most famous in Ward 1, from the huge glass window of the lobby on the top floor. The limit of normal human vision is reached in the adjacent 2nd, 3rd, and 6th districts in the west, and in the northwest and southwest, the city is faintly in the outline of the mountains and the light and shadow of the forest.

Ji Yu stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window at this time, looking at the city that had stopped in the sun, without the previous traffic, people coming and going, and the city that had lost its tracks, the death-like silence was completely palpable.

He is wearing a set of dark gray-green military uniforms, the material of the military uniform is exquisite, the workmanship is fine, the complex and gorgeous epaulettes and retro large-brimmed hats are very similar to the military uniforms of the German army during World War II, but the cockade with the nine-pointed star as the main body and the "forerunner" forerunner armband with black letters on a red background indicate that this retro military uniform is just a personal preference of some people. However, Ji Yu is tall, with a white face, wearing this military uniform, which not only fits, but also looks quite handsome.

"Colonel, several of the responsible persons have arrived, please come to the conference room for a meeting." A female voice sounded behind Ji Yu, and a blonde woman wearing a similar military uniform as him, with knee-length skirts and boots, and a boat-shaped hat on her head, was walking towards him, although she was wearing a military uniform, this woman's figure was very beautiful, she was completely Western-looking, but she was very fluent in Chinese.

Colonel is the military rank awarded to himself by Ji Yu, and it is also the highest military rank in the Forerunner Force, and this rank is only owned by three people in the entire Forerunner Army, he is not in a hurry to make himself a general, marshal, and he will have enough fun if he expands his power step by step and then is promoted.

This is an apocalyptic disaster that affects the entire world, not only the vast majority of ordinary people are swallowed by the disaster, but also many politicians, rich people, and celebrities are not immune.

But there are always exceptions to everything, and Ji Yu is the exception.

After getting the blonde beauty's prompt, Ji Yu turned around and nodded to her, and then walked to the conference room behind her. It was a small conference room, and there were a total of 10 people sitting on both sides of a wide conference table, all wearing the standard military uniform of the forerunner, the color of the military uniform was slightly different, and the epaulettes and nameplates on the chest were also different, but when Ji Yu came in, these 10 people all stood up one after another, raised their hands and saluted.

Ji Yu walked quickly to his seat in the middle, returned a military salute and waved his hand: "Sit down." I emphasize again, you are all wearing military uniforms now, that is, soldiers, don't stand up like this in the future. ”

When these 10 people sat down, they were much more neat than when they were standing, and although no one refuted Ji Yu's words, some people frowned, obviously not so agreeing.

Ji Yu smiled slightly, but his eyes were a little sharp, and said: "It seems that you are still immersed in your original identity and have not come out, but I believe that you should not forget it so soon, if it weren't for me arranging someone to rescue you, you would have either died or mutated now, or even if you are lucky enough to live, you are still worried about a piece of bread." Professor Emmanuel, Director Cui, and Dr. Kobayashi, am I right? ”

The men mentioned silently straightened their backs, trying to make their posture more military-like.

Ji Yu nodded and said, "Very good." Regardless of the technical branch of the armed forces to which you belong here, the first thing to remember is that we are all military now. This is determined by the current environment, everything is based on survival as the first priority, the militarization of all employees, and the best option is to maintain the operation of the whole team through iron discipline. You are the best of the best, don't ask me to repeat these basic requirements again, remember, I don't want another time, there is no one in my place who is irreplaceable. Warrant Officer Gertty. ”

The blonde beauty nodded from before, reached out and pressed the remote control, and a light and shadow floated in front of every participant at the conference table, and a video was played.

This is exactly the effect of Li Hao and Zhao Ji hiding in the consulate the day before and seeing a squad of the Forerunners fighting near the Music Square under the cover of 2 main battle tanks and 3 tank support vehicles. In the video, the team of the forerunners is rounding up a humanoid animal, and when the picture is frozen, it can be seen that this is an adult male, that is, the Zhuo Kai person that Li Hao saw from afar. However, Zhuo Kai is very fast, has amazing bounce and climbing ability, he can easily jump up the 20-meter-high background wall of the Music Square, and finally kill the 3 Precursor soldiers who crawled out of the tank support vehicle at a speed that is fast enough to leave an afterimage, and finally disappear behind the background wall of the Music Square.

The video broadcast ended here, and the footage of the Forerunner's team being besieged by the Pure Land Sect was not played. The image then vanishes, and the entire conference table becomes a giant 3D map, shrinking from the globe to the confines of Suzaku City.

Ji Yu first set his eyes on the woman sitting first on his left, this woman was in her 30s and less than 40 years old, wearing the lieutenant colonel military uniform of their forerunner, she was very thin, with black hair tied in a bunch on the back of her head, wearing a pair of black-framed glasses, her appearance was very ordinary, but she also looked very clean and tidy.

"Dr. Shao?" Ji Yu asked. This woman's name is Shao Xiaonan, a famous virologist at the Suzaku Academy of Medical Sciences, the first time the disaster broke out, she was the key rescue target of the military, not so much that she was rescued by Ji Yu, but that Ji Yu sent someone to snatch it.

Shao Xiaonan pushed his glasses and asked, "In the end, I let him run away, right?" ”

Ji Yu nodded, but he didn't look particularly annoyed.

Shao Xiaonan said: "Based on this image and the virus samples cultivated at the same time, I can infer that the virus in the No. 1 body has mutated again. Moreover, to a large extent, it should have fused with his physique. His actions are clearly conscious of revenge, and when we release him, he is still in a state of amnesia, but in the footage, he seems to have regained some of his memory. ”

Ji Yu clasped his hands and asked with interest, "How do you judge?" ”

Shao Xiaonan stretched out his hand on the desktop to bring up the previous virtual image, and fixed the progress at the moment when Zhuo Kairen turned around after killing 3 soldiers, and said: "This is it, his action is not unconscious, the whole process stayed for about 3 seconds, I think he saw someone he knew." ”

After Shao Xiaonan finished speaking, Gerti enlarged the map on the desktop to the area that matched the image, and then calculated all the moving objects within the visual distance of Zhuo Kairen through computer calculations, and finally locked on the grass where Li Hao and Zhao Ji were hiding at that time. However, because the center of gravity of the drone was on Zhuo Kai people at that time, the grass a few hundred meters away was only a flash, even if it was enlarged and repaired, it could only be determined that there were two people in that position.

Ji Yu nodded and said, "That's very interesting, Dr. Shao, you continue to follow up on the virus sample." I'm going to talk about the story related to No. 1. In fact, when Abu brought him back to base, he was already a cripple, and it was because of his interesting origins that we decided to send him to Dr. Shao's research center for research. ”

Shao Xiaonan said coldly: "But I didn't agree with you directly injecting the vaccine that has not been fully tested into his body. ”

Ji Yu waved his hand and said with a smile: "Dr. Shao, you are too strict, but this is the end of the world, and we have to take risks." Let's talk about another topic, although I have always disagreed with Abu's aesthetic vision, especially his preference for wives. But the mother and son he picked up on the road are very interesting, I have checked, the mother and son have no identity information, according to her own words, it is very likely that they came to our world from a parallel space by very chance. And No. 1 and her are people from the same world, so the person No. 1 knows also has a high probability of coming from that world, and now that there are viruses, zombies, and people from parallel spaces, this world is finally no longer so boring. ”

A young man sitting second to Ji Yu's right said: "Parallel spaces definitely exist, my mentor has been studying and accumulating this for decades, and my team has done a lot of experiments on this basis. Compared with the serendipity that Ji Gongzi said, I believe in finding the entrance to the space through experiments. ”

Ji Yu shook his head and said, "Professor Bu, don't call me Ji Gongzi, there is no Ji Gongzi here, sitting in front of you is Colonel Ji Yu, the supreme commander of the Precursor Army." Before the disaster, I provided you with all the support you needed, not only because of my admiration and dedication to science, but also because I always believed that my life would never be as dull as my father's, and although in my father's generation, our family fortune could already be called rich, but these were not what I wanted. And now, although this disaster is not something that anyone wants to see, since the disaster has broken out, if there is anyone who can turn this disaster into a ladder of human progress, it must be me. ”

The professor surnamed Bu is named Bu Jingwei, although he looks very young, he is in his early 30s, but in fact he is in his 40s, and he doesn't seem to be too interested in Ji Yu's great ideals, he just said: "I need to bring No. 1 back, I need to have an in-depth conversation with the lady who was good friends with Commander Zeng Bu, I need someone to find the person No. 1 knows, I need all the clues to provide data for my laboratory." Don't worry, I'll be able to find the entrance to the space for you, and as for whether the other space will be heaven or hell, I can't guarantee this. ”

Shao Xiaonan took over and said: "From my professional point of view, the virus that caused this devastating disaster appeared very strangely, and the genetic structure of the virus is full of paradoxes, and it is impossible for the existing organisms on our planet to produce such a virus. If Professor Bu's space theory is true, it cannot be ruled out that the virus spread to our world from the space where No. 1 is located. ”

"Okay," Ji Yu nodded and said, "Get No. 1 back, and find the person he knows." According to the couple surnamed Zhang, there was also a young woman with the surname Zhang who participated in the conversation between the number 1 and the woman, and they thought that Gao Yang, that is, the big star Gao Yang and a boy next to him, were also from their space, and they were looking for someone, who was said to be a writer. ”

Bu Jingwei said with some excitement: "If that's the case, I need to bring them all to the lab!" ”

Ji Yu said: "The space experiment is going on at the same time, Warrant Officer Gertty, and we need to give the experts here a full picture of the current situation and plan for our subsequent and future developments." ”

The blonde beauty Gotti nodded, opened the map on the desktop, and whenever she said a place, the map automatically followed and showed a live picture of the location.

"It has now been established that the virus has a full-scale global outbreak and caused a devastating disaster within a month, except for the Antarctic and the North Pole and the space station, which have not been affected by the virus, everywhere there are human beings, the virus has infiltrated without exception, more than 80% of the human population has been infected with the virus and mutated or died, and the remaining 20% of the survivors are mostly scattered around every corner and face the threat of safety and food shortages. At present, all the governments of the world have been paralyzed, only some of the original government agencies and military systems are still functioning, and the surviving senior officials of the United Nations have called on all parties to form a joint earth command, but they have not received an adequate response. At present, the most effective joint command structure is a maritime command center formed by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier fleets of several major powers, and the remaining military forces of about 30 countries have expressed acceptance of the command of the joint command, but the degree of control of the joint command varies greatly depending on the distance of communication. ”

Professor Emmanuel, who had been named by Ji Yu before, an old white man in his early 60s who had almost lost his head, interrupted Gotti and spoke in his native language, that is, German, but as soon as he spoke, his words were translated by the computer in unison, saying: "With all due respect, I don't agree with Professor Bu and Dr. Shao's claim that the parallel space spillover virus is the source of the disaster. In fact, from an ecological point of view, this is a self-correction of the Earth's ecosystem. I'm sure you all know what I mean, which is that human activity has overwhelmed the planet, so the planet releases viruses and corrects itself, just like a computer kills or formats. After that, a new ecosystem and even a new civilization will be formed, and I think Colonel Ji's idea is correct, since we, as pioneers, must seize new ecological niches before new ecosystems appear. ”

These people have already heard too much about the overwhelmed earth and so on, and no one is interested in exploring it, and they don't even want to skip this topic.

Emmanuel was unhappy to be slighted, saying, "When I talk about a new ecosystem, it's not a macro concept. ”

Ji Yu looked at him and asked, "So, what exactly does it mean?" ”