Life......

If you type the word into any search site, you'll see explanations like the following.

The meaning of the word is: the survival of living things, the ability of living things to move; or the fundamental conditions by which things live; It is no longer to represent fate; Alive; Animals, plants, or people. Fundamentally, it almost refers to a form of protein that exists.

That's how people define life, after all, we've only seen these forms of life.

Bugs, animals, people, plants, microorganisms, that's pretty much it.

And what about stones?

That's certainly not life.

What about air?

Of course not, water, sunlight, flame, these are not life. If an ignorant child asks why these things are not life, you can probably only tell him...... Because there's no protein in these things, there's no cells.

So why do you have to have proteins or cells to be called life?

Most people can only prevaricate with 'that's what is taught in textbooks'.

Oh no, it's not prevarication, it's fact. Because humans have been defined this way for thousands of years, if you tell another person that stones are living beings, then he must think you are crazy. If you say that life is actually just a state of being given, and has nothing to do with its composition, then the other party will definitely move out dozens of books and use all kinds of arguments in them to pat you until you are convinced.

So, if you tell him that life is not a word, not a general term for the carbon gene of sports, not anything that is argued in the book, [life] is really just a tall and thin 'person'...... Okay, then you're not far from a mental hospital.

......

......

200 meters underground, Containment Area 44.

At this time, in a certain mountainous area hundreds of kilometers away, an old man was having a seemingly absurd conversation with the hunter of Demon Fox No. 71.

And here, an even more absurd dialogue is about to unfold.

In front of the underground platform, a vehicle that looked like a subway slowly stopped, and an obese middle-aged man with a haggard face walked down.

Long ago, these underground trains could easily travel back and forth between containment areas, but nowadays, only a handful are still operating, and each one consumes a lot of electricity.

In this era, 'electricity' is a very scarce resource.

The chubby middle-aged man took out a lollipop from his pocket and stuffed it into his mouth, when people think, their brains consume a lot of sugar, so this fat man likes to eat sugar, in his words, this fat body is not his fault at all, but for the Foundation. For all mankind! Of course, no one believes that.

Soon, a scientific researcher in a white lab coat walked over.

"It's all set." The researcher said directly, and he didn't even say hello.

The Foundation's scientific research department is this virtue, they seem to have only experiments and science in their minds, and there is very little communication, and even many people have been working in the laboratory for several years, and they don't know the names of their colleagues in the research group next door.

"Let's go." The middle-aged man didn't care about the other party's impoliteness, in fact, he liked this feeling very much, scientific research is scientific research, and human feelings are just useless behaviors to delay the research and development of the subject.

After walking through a long passage, the two came to a huge iron door, and the scientific researcher took out a protective suit from a mezzanine outside the door and handed it to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man waved his hand: "No need, if it wants to kill me, this protective suit is useless." ”

After speaking, he walked directly into the disinfection channel.

Soon, all the scanning and disinfection was done, and the middle-aged man entered the inside of the gate.

If it's the first time you've passed through this door, you'll be amazed by the sight inside. Because the inside and outside of the gate are two worlds entirely.

At this moment, what appeared in front of the middle-aged man was a jungle. Dense vegetation fills almost the entire space, like the deepest part of the ancient rainforest, where humans have never set foot before. What's even more amazing is that all the vegetation here is a species that humans have never seen before, such as purple weeds curling high in half-human heights, flowers as big as manhole covers, and colorful vines clinging to huge tree stumps.

The middle-aged man exhaled deeply, even though he had been prepared for a long time and had been here several times himself, he still couldn't accept the environment here.

Gathering his courage, he began to walk into the jungle, some vines seemed to sense a new object entering the area, they began to move slowly, avoiding this uninvited guest, a few times, the middle-aged man accidentally guessed some tree roots, those roots instantly burrowed into the dirt, and even the trees next to them writhed uncomfortably.

Well, you read that right, the trees twisted a few times, and most of the vegetation here has the ability to sense, perceive, and move, in fact, if you carry a knife and cut through some vines, you can even see the bright red flesh inside at the fracture, just like the tentacles formed by the condensation of those dead bodies.

Due to the complexity of the path, it was a long way to go, and finally, after an hour, the middle-aged man finally came to a place that looked a little empty.

"Doss...... Doss ......" he shouted in a circle toward the neighborhood.

Suddenly, a strange branch woven together by flesh and green branches suddenly fell from the top of his head, and magically assumed a 'finger outstretched [shhhh]' pose, hovering in front of the middle-aged man's mouth.

Immediately afterwards, a voice of "———— shhhh "Don't disturb the children, they're resting."

The voice was very soft, but the roughness of a man could still be heard, and with the voice, a tall man also appeared...... He stepped out of the thick trunk in front of the middle-aged man.

emmm...... It was a difficult sight to describe, as if the tree was made of plasticine, and the man squeezed out of the plasticine, and by the way, brought out a large amount of sticky blood from the trunk.

"Uh, why are you so disgusting every time you show up?" The middle-aged man muttered.

"Disgusting? Hehe, you humans call everything that is not known to you, or that doesn't look like you, disgusting. ”

"We humans are willing." The chubby middle-aged man muttered with a little dissatisfaction: "Speaking of business, Lu Yuan has returned, what about his sister?" ”

"Here." The tall man said, waving his hand slightly.

A large, flesh-and-blood cocoon slowly descended directly above the two of them through the dense branches overhead.