A few minutes ago.

"Come out." Qiu Xuan spoke to the void in silence.

Above the cascading mountain of corpses, One slowly walked out from the back.

"You deliberately let me find you, why?"

"I, remember, something." One pointed his half-faced body made of precision metal against the pit, "I, before, have been here before. Just lie down, in there. ”

Following the finger pointing at him, Qiu Xuan frowned. "Are you saying that when you were a 'human' before, you were also thrown here for experiments, and then you don't know who transformed it into this?"

"I don't remember."

"Okay." Qiu Xuan walked over and stood on the edge of the pit with No. 1. "Then you can explain, why did you approach the shadows?"

"She has what I want. But I, I don't remember, what it was. ”

This person is from Zhang Qiling's clan, Qiu Xuan quietly rolled her eyes in her heart. "Brother, can I trouble you to go out for a while, I'm going to start doing it."

"The roads outside are all blocked. I just tried, but I can't get out. ”

"What then?"

Number One paused, and there was a sudden hint of rare hesitation in his tone. "I do, there is a way, but I don't know, do you want to, willing."

……

"Whether it is the Academy of Sciences or a certain activity, it is all for the purpose of achieving the goal of human co-evolution." Zhao Mingsi smiled and looked around at the crowd, "I believe that you are all understanding people, and you should know how to take a long-term view of the problem." ”

Boom ——!

The ground in the center of the main plaza shook violently, and several loud noises rang from the depths of the earth, as if some huge object had been ripped alive from a high place.

Immediately afterwards, a spider-web-like crack spread out from the center of the ground to the center. The cracked ground collapsed suddenly, and many of the soldiers who had not had time to flee wailed and fell down with the rubble.

Zhao Mingsi raised his metal wings and flew away from the collapse area, the expression on his face was so gloomy that he could drip water.

At this moment, collapsing to the edge of the ground, a mechanical arm grabbed the gravel and climbed up. As the full picture is revealed, the person who climbed neatly is No. 1. Then, he stretched his mechanical arm down again, and with the help of one hand, he pulled up another person whose face was as pale as a corpse.

Qiu Xuan stumbled onto the ground, and even stumbled when her toes touched the ground. "Qiu Xuan!" Shuying ran out of the crowd and rushed at her in a panic, "Are you okay, are you hurt?!" ”

Qiu Xuan sat on the ground and waved her hand at her, and it was such a simple action that made her almost fall to the ground in shame with all her strength. So she stopped trying to move or speak, and with no gestures in her hands, she let herself lie flat on the ground.

"Energy liquid, which of you still has energy liquid?"

"No, the original amount of preparation was one bottle per person, but now there is a lack of resources, and there is no superfluity." Ander shrugged at her helplessly

"But she ......" Shuying's voice paused, and she looked at the big knobby hand stretched out in front of her in a bit of a daze.

"Mine hasn't been drunk yet." Qin Jiuyuan squatted down, pretending not to see No. 1 and squeezed him to the side.

For the first time, Ling You and the mercenary group felt that their boss was very embarrassed: ......

No. 1 was squeezed aside, but he didn't say anything in a good-natured way, just glanced at Qin Jiuyuan with an inexplicable gaze, and automatically used it as a background board and stopped talking.

Zhao Mingsi looked at this side with a vague expression, and after a while, he said in a deep voice: "Everyone, everyone is a civilized person, and you must always be reasonable." Even if you take a step back, the previous behavior of this black man can be ignored, but this time everyone has seen it with their own eyes. She destroys the facilities of the river and harms the inhabitants of the river, and these things alone will not give up! ”

Zhao ...... Mr. Zhao! Unexpectedly, the person who spoke first did not belong to any side of the team, but the soldier holding An Zixuan.

Seeing that he was exposed to the public, the soldier swallowed his saliva a little nervously, but he still forced his voice to speak in a trembling voice. "Excuse me, can you explain the corpses of those black people at the inside door of the laboratory? I don't mean to question you, as long as you give a reason, I'm willing to continue to pursue you! ”

“……”

"Of course, my child." Zhao Mingsi smiled, "They are about to get a new life, they have the power that is truly in their hands, they are so strong that they are feared by others, and they will no longer be looked down upon and despised because of their black identity." And you can do as long as you want. So my children, do you want to be reborn with them, in the embers of fire? ”

"I, I ......"

"It's okay, you can think about it slowly." Zhao Mingsi was unexpectedly good at the moment. For the last time, his gaze swept over everyone present, and he deliberately said in an exaggerated and morbid aria:

"Judging from a certain person, how lucky everyone here is! Because the curtain is about to be lifted for the first time since humanity entered the age of steam! ”

He stood on a high platform with his arms outstretched, his metal wings covering the sky and the sun fully open, making him look like the savior of the gods who redeemed the people in the midst of suffering.

As he moved, a hiss came from the deep pit under the ground that had been pierced by No. 1. The sound sounded like a signal, and the first infected person crawled out of the edge of the crater holding the rubble. And after him, layers of infected people poured out like ants in a nest.

"Mr. Zhao, what are you doing here?!"

"Realize the evolution of the common destiny of mankind and enter a new chapter in the steam age."

The old man spat fiercely, "Bah, these crazy people, I said a long time ago that there is something wrong with the way they act, but I didn't expect it to get worse now." ”

Shuying muttered a few times in disbelief, and then finally reacted under Hengxie's reminder. "We don't have much of a fighting force left." Ling You said, "Our car was parked outside, and now we can only open the city gate and evacuate." ”

"Open the gates and just let the infected escape? There are still makeshift sites set up by the black people near Kawaliu Town, and we still have a little bit of strength left, but those people are dead. ”

"It can only be said that natural selection." The old man was silent for a while, and finally sighed, "I also agree to open the door and evacuate, this is the best way so far." ”

Shuying lowered his head with an embarrassed face, obviously because he couldn't pass the threshold of conscience.

The entire people of Chuanliu fled in all directions in a panic. Crying, wailing, screaming, screaming, incessantly.

In the chaotic crowd, Qiu Xuan slowly sat up from the ground, her face was as white as paper, and it was difficult for her to complete even the most basic sitting and standing by herself.

She leaned on Qin Jiuyuan and raised her head to drink the strange liquid.

Qiu Xuan closed her eyes and calmed down her emotions, and her wrists hanging low on the ground fluttered with ten fingers, as if she was playing a pre-dawn overture.