Emmanuel looked at Ji Yu with some arrogance, for the so-called supreme commander who can be his grandson at this age, although as Ji Yu said, if he hadn't sent someone to rescue himself who was attending an academic conference in Suzaku City, he would have turned into a zombie now.

But Emmanuel didn't want to deliberately please him, and he just replied very seriously to Ji Yu's question: "New species." ”

Emanuel is a panecologist and a panbiologist, his research field is very broad, he has traveled to many places in his life, every continent on the planet has left his footprints, he has dabbled in cultural diversity to biodiversity, he is proficient in many Chinese, even without simultaneous translation, he can talk to everyone in this room.

Ji Yu sensed the anger of old Emmanuel, asked Gerti to bring the old man a cup of coffee, and asked in a different tone, "Professor Emmanuel, what do you mean by new species?" You know, what we need most now is not macro theory, but micro information to help us survive for a longer period of time. ”

"When I say new species, of course they ......" Emmanuel stood up and walked to the window of the conference room, where Gertty followed closely, switching the blackout screen on the window pane to give an unobstructed view of the city below the building. And the elder Emmanuel stood by the window, looked at the zombies wandering in the dead street, and said, "The virus did not kill them, but changed them into new species." ”

Shao Xiaonan also walked to the window, and said with a painful expression: "Professor Emmanuel, I am willing to believe your conclusion that they are not dead, but ...... I have dissected the remains of a large number of infected individuals, including mutant infected who remain mobile. Viruses have completely destroyed their organizational structure, especially brain tissue, which has been completely necrotic, and the reason why they can still move is medically speaking, a paradoxical phenomenon that defies natural common sense, and at present, it mainly depends on the energy provided by the virus. But the virus itself consumes the host's energy, and eventually disappears completely as the host decomposes. This process will not be very long, I suspect that by 6 to 9 months at the latest, the infected person will disappear completely, and even if the virus continues to spread, it will gradually die out due to the loss of its host. There may not be more than 1% of humans surviving, and the earth will become a ghost realm for humans...... I'm an atheist, and 'ghost domain' is just an adjective. ”

Emmanuel glanced at Shao Xiaonan coldly and said, "The new species I am talking about include not only the current human beings, but also other animals and plants. Under normal circumstances, many precious ornamental plants need to be carefully cared for by gardeners, otherwise it is easy to get sick and even die, but have you seen any plants die in the past month? Not really. ”

He walked back to the conference table, switched the 3D map in the middle of the table into a set of pictures, and continued: "You see, except for humans, all the mammals in the city have mutated due to infection, whether it is canines and felines as pets, rodents hiding in the shadows, bats of flying classes, and even ungulates raised on farms, they have mutated, and they are more destructive and offensive than humans. I haven't seen any wild mammals in zoos yet, but I can assume that all mammals mutate. If this continues, birds and reptiles will not be spared.

What this virus has changed is the current ecological environment of the entire earth, and the self-correction of the earth is not at the cost of the destruction of all species, so the species that do not adapt to the virus, including humans, will completely die out as Dr. Shao said, and the species that adapt to the virus will transform into new species, so as to gain the right to survive in the new environment. The self-correction of the earth is a conscious act, and in her view, we humans are the kind of thing called viruses. ”

"Old man, your remarks are already approaching those gods of the Pure Land Sect!" As the door of the conference room was pushed open, Zeng Bu, who was also wearing a colonel's military uniform and was taller than Ji Yu, walked in, he was wearing a headset, and he had been standing outside the conference room and listening for a while.

He had come to attend the next military meeting, and he didn't want to attend the previous meeting, because he felt that it was a very painful thing to listen to these scientists' nagging, just like his military uniform was full of dust and stained with a lot of blood, not only did he not change it, but he felt more energetic, Zeng Bu's strong smell of gunpowder and blood, coupled with his rude and rude attitude, made Emmanuel close his mouth tightly, revealing an expression of refusal to communicate.

"Abu," Ji Yu sat down in his seat calmly, changed into a comfortable semi-lying position, and said, "In a sense, science and religion have different paths, but the so-called Pure Land Religion is just a cult that has no real beliefs and behaves in an extremely unscientific way. ”

Zeng Bu smiled and said, "Then I don't care, anyway, if they dare to fire at my people, I want them to regret coming to this world!" I think you're talking about it as an afterthought, and now that the whole world has been destroyed, it's a waste of time to talk about the causes of the disaster. Old man, since you say that the new species will replace the old species, then tell me, how can we survive? That's the most important thing! ”

Shao Xiaonan said coldly: "According to Professor Emmanuel's theory, if you want to survive for a long time, the most effective way is to transform into what he calls a 'new species', Ji ...... That's why you're so desperate to get the results of No. 1's experiment, Colonel, right? But transforming human beings through virus experiments is simply drinking water to quench thirst. ”

"Nope." Ji Yu very resolutely rejected Shao Xiaonan's hypothesis, saying: "I don't want to change the existing human beings into any 'new species', on the contrary, if Professor Emmanuel's new ecological hypothesis is irreversible, I hope that Dr. Shao and your team will do everything possible to maintain the purity of the remaining survivors as human beings, in other words, I hope that we will continue to pass on as pure-bred human beings, instead of becoming a 'new species' and leaving the term 'human' in the history books."

This is the general principle. For the sake of this principle, we need to do something, such as the study of Subject 1, and if you can't restore him to a pure but powerful human entity, I think it is possible to transform him into a secondary product and make them serve purebred humans. ”

Shao Xiaonan's eyes widened, he opened his mouth, and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

At this time, sitting in the first position of Ji Yu's right hand, a young man who looked about the same age as Ji Yu, that is, in his early twenties, said: "In the laws of nature, the stratification of species is the inevitable selection and result of evolution. It is not for nothing that human beings have reached the top of the biological chain, and they will never degenerate into a 'new species' on a par with other organisms because of a catastrophe caused by a virus.

Those of us, including all of you here, whether you were doctors, professors, celebrities or elites, these are no longer important. The important thing is that we are all immune to the first wave of airborne virus immunity, which is a natural screening that separates us from the other 80% of infected people. ”

The person who spoke, surnamed Dongye, a single name and a Xiang character, his family background is not as noble as Ji Yu and Zeng Bu, but he has the reputation of a genius boy since he was a child, and he was directly admitted to the so-called "prodigy class" of Suzaku University at the age of 12, and registered the company by himself at the age of 16, and by the age of 20, the assets in his hands have exceeded 100 million, and Ji Yu and Zeng Bu have contacts from time to time, and the relationship is very close.

And unlike the tall Ji Yu and Zeng Bu, Higashino Xiang's figure looks a little thin, and his lieutenant colonel uniform is a little empty on him, more like a boy scout participating in military training, and he doesn't have hair, his bare scalp and natural triangular ear pinna, a two-dimensional character.

The most amazing thing about Sho Higashino is his two eyes, the left eye is full of excitement and even excitement, the right eye is calm as if frozen, and his voice is full of the infectious energy of a radio anchor, saying: "But our group of people can sit here not just because we are immune to airborne viruses. Instead, it relies on the precise layout before the disaster and the strong execution after the disaster to have the unique living conditions now. ”

Speaking of the layout in the early stage, it is just a "doomsday fortress" built by Ji Yu and Zeng Bu when they were born with endless money. Not only did they store a large amount of supplies in the fortress, but they also hired thousands of professionals to serve their "Doomsday Fortress", and Higashino Sho not only participated in the design and construction of the entire "Doomsday Fortress", but also invested a lot of money himself.

At that time, their behavior was closer to rhapsody, and they didn't think about recovering their investment at all, and even planned to use it as a film and television base. So to say that it was really prescient is not entirely accurate, and it has some crooked meaning.

However, after the disaster, the entire "Doomsday Bastion" system worked perfectly, and most of the staff they hired survived the first wave of airborne viruses, especially the security team composed of retired and even active special forces soldiers from all over the world, which completed the rescue work that many government agencies failed to complete, and also gathered a considerable number of social elites and scientific and technological talents.

Sho Higashino, who is now the chief of staff of the "forerunners", continues to elaborate on their worldview in the face of these professors, doctors, and elites attending the meeting in front of him: "Professor Emmanuel, I agree with some of your views, but instead of assuming any new ecology, it is better to think objectively about how to construct a new order. And we have named ourselves 'forerunners' because we are necessarily the founders of the new order, the very few at the top of the pyramid.

Not all survivors who are immune to airborne viruses can become precursors, there are too many fools in this world, even if only 20% are left, it is still too many, and the 'precursor' class must be fixed within a certain range, in other words, those who can enter the 'precursor' class must be the purest and most talented people in the new order, and the precursors will also evolve into the noblest race.

In addition, we can pick and absorb a subset of ordinary survivors as loyal 'followers' who cannot participate in decision-making, but can trade their loyalty and abilities for the benefits that the second level of the new order can have. Followers will be the backbone of the entire new order, but we will also need a large number of pure laborers, whether they can be eliminated survivors or cured infected, Dr. Shao, it's up to your team. ”

Shao Xiaonan smiled coldly and said, "This is the so-called genius boy? Such a retro hierarchy was an eye-opener for me. ”

Higashino Sho said disapprehantly, "Isn't there a hierarchy in modern society?" In all systems, the elite class is always the minority, the so-called equality is only relative and limited, and now is the end of the world, and it is most effective for a very small elite to manage the survivors. Okay, let's not talk about it, I will be in charge of you and your team in the future, you just need to concentrate on doing your experiments. ”

Ji Yu nodded, looked at a middle-aged man, and said, "Director Cui, please talk about the specific situation of the base construction." ”

The middle-aged man nodded and replied, "Okay." At present, we have 3 fortresses of Doom that are functioning normally, and we are building our headquarters around Building 1. At present, our defense radius has been extended to 1 km away from Building 1, and after luring the infected away through sonic bait, the construction of the defensive wall has used a large number of modular materials, and the progress has reached 70%, and some construction workers have been attacked by mutated organisms during construction, and they have been dealt with......"

Then there were a series of problems such as energy problems and food problems, and finally, only Ji Yu and Zeng Bu were left, and they no longer sat in the conference room, but came to a small room, the room was facing the sea, they admired the sun, the sea, except that it was too quiet, as if nothing had happened in front of them.

Zeng Bu took off his military jacket, spread his legs in field boots on two stools, lay down in what he thought was the most comfortable position, and said: "Old Ji, this disaster is simply tailor-made for you, old man, they have all withdrawn to the sea, and the land is your world." ”

Ji Yu stood by the window with his hands behind his back and said, "It's not mine, it's ours." ”

Zeng Bu waved his hand disapprovingly and said, "It's yours, I'm not interested in domination, killing and women are what I love the most." Do you know why I'm not in a hurry to kill all those gods now? Because only they can fight me in an organized way, those scattered survivor teams, you let me drive a tank to run them over, that really doesn't interest me. ”

Ji Yu smiled and said, "Don't worry, after we complete the first phase of deployment, you can try to pull out a few military strongholds." ”

Zeng Bu said: "Zhao Er has now flown to the Xiaoqianshan base, and the boss of his family should be the person in charge there now, since Zhao Er went to talk about cooperation with the military, how can we fire with the military?" If I fight with the regular army, I don't have enough cannon fodder on my hands. ”

Ji Yu said: "So I said that after our first phase of deployment is completed, and when Shao Xiaonan and Best's team completes the second phase of zombie transformation, you can have as much cannon fodder as you want." As for cooperation, you wouldn't be so naïve as to think that Zhao Er took his boss very seriously, right? ”

Zeng Bu said: "I don't like that guy who doesn't know his six relatives, you should be careful, when I am away, you better not be alone with him." ”

Ji Yu sighed and said: "He won't be so stupid, although he also has resources in his hands, he doesn't have any advantage over me, and the more he goes on, the less he has an advantage, besides, do you think that in terms of combat power, I am worse than you?" ”

Zeng Bu laughed and said, "Since I was a child, when have you ever beaten me?" But he can't take advantage of you. What do you think? When the defensive wall of the No. 1 headquarters is completed, you will get an emperor, right? It's not the kind of earth emperor in ancient times, but the kind like the emperor of the Galactic Empire, the little bald head of Higashino Sho, who can't wait to be Oberstan for a long time. ”

Ji Yu said lightly: "It's still early, let's wait until we have enough population and land, there are also several doomsday fortresses in operation in Europe and America, I have entered their system, and those guys even have fighter jets...... They have an innate advantage over us when it comes to acquiring weapons. When they become more powerful, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not take down the United Nations' Joint Earth Command first, and then our competitiveness will be a little worse.

And don't forget, our biggest enemy right now is zombies, and that's billions. Shao Xiaonan speculates that the zombies will automatically die out after nine months at the latest, but I prefer what the old Emmanuel said, the zombies will transform into new species, if that is the case, they will regain a certain amount of wisdom and consciousness, and then fight back against us in an organized and planned way, don't you think it's exciting just thinking about it? That's billions! ”

Zeng Bu touched the stubble on his chin and said with great interest: "It's really exciting to think about it." ”

Ji Yu suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, where did you put your wife?" Bu Jingwei needs your wife, as well as the information of Subject 1 and his companions, and Shao Xiaonan also wants to verify whether the virus was brought by them. You've had enough, just hand it over to Bu Jingwei. ”

"Play?" Zeng Bu frowned and said, "I'm not playing with every woman...... We'll talk about it later. ”

Ji Yu sighed, shook his head and said, "It's up to you in terms of time, but not too long." Also, Zhao Er's sister is lost, why don't you find her back and make a main house, in this way, Zhao Er probably doesn't care, but Zhao Da should be more willing to form an alliance with us. ”

"What?" Zeng Buhaha smiled and said, "You said that little mounted policeman? I'm not interested in her! ”