Volume 2: The Stairway to Heaven (36)

Dark clouds rolled in the gloomy sky, and a murky mist rippled everywhere between the heavens and the earth. An oval-shaped orange-red fire cloud hung vertically on a huge crater that was spewing out molten currents from time to time, constantly flowing according to a certain pattern, covering its surface with spiral stripes, this spectacle that completely violated the rules of physics made Hou Ping's eyes involuntarily attracted.

The next moment, the clouds rippled like water, and suddenly a large wave of fire rain spit out from it, and along with the fire rain appeared some red-skinned strange creatures that Hou Ping had never seen. As soon as those creatures landed, they didn't stop for a moment, and all of them hurried to the battlefield that was stuck.

Hou Ping's gaze followed the creatures that suddenly appeared, and there were other strange creatures fighting with them, or bird-headed human bodies, or sphinxes, or tiger-headed snake tails, which really opened Hou Ping's eyes. Those strange creatures fought and forgot to die on a battlefield with no end in sight, and the ground was already densely covered with corpses of both sides.

On another peak at her level, stood a woman with a snake head, elegant and independent. The reason why she is considered a woman is only because of her long flowing hair and her very bewitching upper body, Hou Ping, who is actually not a biological expert, does not know how to classify her.

Suddenly, there was something new in the battlefield, and a powerful force of minotaurs rushed out of the opposite team, wielding huge battle axes and stone hammers, and smashing the enemies in front of them to the ground. Hou Ping's body moved involuntarily, stretched out five black sharp claws and half-grasped them into hooks, a trace of red light appeared from between the claws, burning more and more fiercely, and it grew into a flame in a few seconds, when the flame was about a meter in diameter, Hou Ping shook his hand, and the fireball fell into the crowd.

"Boom!"

A mushroom cloud was born out of thin air at the landing point of the fireball, and the surging fire engulfed the ground for dozens of miles around, and the sweeping shock wave blew the ground hundreds of miles above, and the originally dense minotaur creatures were also evaporated without a trace, leaving only a bottomless huge sinkhole in the center of the explosion.

Such power is comparable to a nuclear explosion in the human world!

Is this me?

Hou Ping was puzzled, he couldn't imagine that a person could do this.

Just as he was about to take a closer look at his body, the tip of his nose suddenly smelled an unusually familiar smell, Hou Ping's heart was shocked, and then the world in front of him began to become more and more blurred......

When Hou Ping opened his eyes again, he found himself lying on a hospital bed, surrounded by all kinds of experimental and testing equipment, although the room was spacious but the same as where he usually stayed, there was no second person in it, and he was accompanied only by large and small monitoring equipment in all corners.

Feeling a little cold on his body, Hou Ping habitually had to pull the quilt covering his chest with his hands. Suddenly, Hou Ping's hand stopped, with an expression of disbelief on his face, and then his face changed and he lifted the sheet covering his body with a "whew", and the excessive action made Hou Ping, who had not yet healed from his injury, feel the pain of the cone again, and the muscles on his face twitched several times.

To Hou Ping's great surprise, most of the tissues on his chest were gone, replaced by a strange diamond-shaped crystal that occupied half of his chest! The beautiful transparent crystal was half-buried in his chest, revealing a part of its unusually beautiful diamond surface, and from the smooth mirror-like surface, you could see the rich and vivid mist inside. Hou Ping looked at his already changed body stupidly, his eyelids fluttered, completely forgetting the pain that had just affected his whole body.

Am I still human? It's all like this, can my family still accept me?

Hou Ping's mind was buzzing, and he couldn't know what to do for a while, so he could only keep cursing in his heart for turning him into this ghost-like research base.

"I advise you to lie back in the hospital bed first, the rejection in your body is far from over, you should try to maintain your physical strength to meet the challenges ahead."

While Hou Ping was wandering, the person in charge who had been following him since the first day he came in spoke again.

Thinking of the familiar smell he smelled in a daze, Hou Ping felt excited, he jumped on the bed and grabbed the camera that was talking to him and said sharply:

"What did you do to Nangong Qing!"

"Nangong Qing ......"

The microphone on the camera was silent, and the tens of seconds of silence seemed like a century to Hou Ping, who was very anxious to know his wife's safety.

After a while, the person in charge finally spoke again:

"She's fine!"

"You're lying!"

"I don't have to lie to you"

Hou Ping was skeptical of the words of the person in charge, he really didn't have to lie to himself, he was just a poor guinea pig in his eyes, and he didn't bother to deceive himself. But what about the familiar smell I smelled when I was unconscious? Hou Ping believed that he was not mistaken, was it really just a hallucination that appeared when he was dying?

"I want to see evidence that she's living safely outside! Otherwise...... Otherwise, I'll give up struggling in the next rejection reaction! ”

Hou Ping thought for a moment and confirmed that this was the only one that could threaten them, and that his experiments had reached a certain stage, and the sudden death of the subject at this time should be a very heavy blow to them - at least much more important than the safety of an insignificant woman! Whether or not they brought their wives into the institute, using this as a bargaining chip would definitely ensure her safety.

"Don't get excited! We'll get you evidence right away, and you'll have to wait patiently for two days......"

After being counterattacked by Hou Ping, the person in charge was a little flustered, and hurriedly ended his conversation with Hou Ping, it seems that this project is not generally important to him.

Hou Ping, who received an exact answer, breathed a sigh of relief and slowly lay back on the hospital bed, after this period of life and death, he seemed to have the qualifications to negotiate conditions with the experimental base, although his chips were pitiful. So far, there is only so much I can do for my family, and as long as I don't die for a day, they will be safe for the time being.

A few days later, the base really sent in an additional video material, and the whole edited video lasted for more than an hour, most of which were captured of his wife's activities outdoors, with some backgrounds that could show the time and place, fully answering the doubts in his heart to Hou Ping.

"How? Now it's time to rest assured, right? ”

It seems that their cooperation or failure has a crucial impact on the results of their research, and the person in charge has been observing him through the camera just now, and as soon as he puts down the device, he is anxious to ask for the results.

Hou Ping did not answer him directly, but asked another question:

"What are you trying to achieve by making me like this?"

"The purpose? Our purpose is to start the path of human evolution, and we have entered the best of times – but at the same time the worst! Meteorites have opened the way for the evolution of the entire world, and all the species that lose in this competition can only be annihilated in the long river of history. Do you know? After breaking through to the fourth order, the creatures will enter a new world, calling for wind and rain, swallowing clouds and thunder, mastering the power that only exist in these myths, and then it is not impossible to move mountains and reclaim the sea, and change the heavens and the earth! Can you imagine? Humanity will enter a glorious age of mythology! ”

"Moving mountains and seas? How easy is the world? You have no fear of power! ”

Thinking of the power of his gestures in the dream, Hou Ping couldn't help but shudder. Powerful power can only be used to kill and destroy, and rashly allowing them to gain great power without elevating their ideological realm is undoubtedly taking the initiative to open Pandora's box and bring the whole world to the brink of destruction.

"Awe? Isn't power meant to be controlled? ”

"I don't understand you scientists' obsession with power research, but I do know that with great power comes great responsibility - as you gain power, you already have a responsibility for the safety of this world, because your every move has the potential to cause great harm to this world."

"It's really a strange remark, I just found out that you are such a secondary two."

No, I'm not Form 2! Imagine what the world would become if everyone sent a nuclear bomb that could be detonated? I think this way because I already know that those powers are terrifying!

Hou Ping was screaming desperately in his heart, but he didn't directly express the thoughts in his heart, that extremely realistic dream must be related to something, and those are likely to become the hole cards that he escaped from the base!

"Rest well! The time limit of the stabilizer has expired today, and your rejection reaction may start at any time, I hope you can get through it smoothly......"

Perhaps because he didn't speculate with Hou Ping, the person in charge of the base suddenly became unhappy, and there was no news after a simple explanation.

Hou Ping didn't care, now what he wanted to understand most was why he had such a strange dream after transplanting the crystal, how could he reach the height of those creatures in the dream, judging from their performance in battle, the strength could completely crush all the defense forces in the base, which meant that he had a chance to see the light of day again!

Hou Ping, who was full of worries, moved his body, and the lack of some organs often made Hou Ping feel a little empty, and suddenly he was deprived of his human identity all along, making him always feel a little lost. Hou Ping didn't ask what the crystal on his body was and what its function was, because most of it would be sent away by the people at the base on the grounds that state secrets could not be leaked casually.

The only way out for yourself is to find out how to use that crystal and use it to escape from this cave!

Hou Ping, who felt a little tired, lay back on the hospital bed and raised his eyelids, and after a while, he fell into a deep sleep.

"I heard you're looking for me?"

In the dark, Hou Ping suddenly heard such a voice, and his body couldn't move, and his heart was panicked.

"Who? Who's there! ”

"What a nuisance!"

After the voice muttered, the entire dark world was replaced by orange, and a red-skinned demon with two horns on its head and wings walked towards Hou Ping step by step towards Hou Ping with a long head, two horns, and two wings......