00218 Equivalent exchange
As a former soldier of the Empire, Han Wensheng was supposed to live and die with the Empire, but when he chose to accept this unusually heavy responsibility, the value of his mission was far higher than everything he had believed in before.
On the morning of January 1, 88 A.D.
Han Wensheng, who had just heard that there were alienated infected people in Aishinwar and caused a riot, did not have time to care about the safety of his family, so he was urgently transferred to the newly built Tulaya Experimental Base to serve as the first chief inspector here.
It was a bad day, and the base of Tulaya, near Ogu Bay, was covered in snow and looked like a bride from a distance, standing gracefully and serenely, with an artificial neutron star core just activated.
With a roar and blinding light, the artificial sun rises, and the Tulaya base on the ground begins to slowly set.
Han Wensheng, who was standing on the Ville-class strategic deployment ship, waited silently, and the group of staff behind him also looked solemn and extremely solemn.
It took twenty-seven hours for the entire Tulaya base, a perfect replica of the Dusk City-State, to finally settle down, and then the sun hung high, accompanied by the sound of machinery.
"Tulaya has completed the launch, please confirm the final credentials."
After Han Wensheng heard this, he started the deployment and loading of the battleship he was on, and tens of thousands of white-clothed people with the code name 0 followed Han Wensheng and landed in the empty and damp city-state of the Dusk Sun.
The cold after the snow melted made Han Wensheng realize that all this was not a hoax in his existing memory, but a real beginning.
……
Ten days later, the first group of thirteen,000 inhabitants appeared in the streets of the Dusk City-State, and these people awoke as usual with the rising morning sun.
They are the first type, immature like newborn babies, not only the memory system retains a very small infrastructure,
Even their body's basic immune system is very weak.
This batch of 13,000 people is completely made of meta-like embryo petri dishes, and they can only survive for fifteen days, after which the supervisors will forcibly recover the samples that did not die at the predetermined time, and at the same time, they will also retain the genetic data of these individuals with strong vitality, collect and sort out their unstable information, and confirm whether alienation is beneficial or harmful.
Thirteen thousand, that doesn't sound like much.
Especially when they are placed in a city of this million-dollar scale, it is even more insignificant.
As Inspector General, Han Wensheng was not directly involved in Turaya's plans, in fact he was more of a bystander, only overseeing all of this. Therefore, in the fifteen days of the first batch of investment, Han Wensheng lived freely in the city every day like a traveler.
On the morning of 17/01/88, the first batch of them performed well, and the restrained memories allowed them to enjoy each day in peace, and there was no sense of crisis.
But this is only the result of collating the data, not the actual experience.
At least for Han Wensheng, the first days were really tormenting.
He carries countless secrets, and looks at these people who look like ordinary people, but their thoughts are firmly locked by an invisible cage, making them like frogs at the bottom of the well, and they don't mind what the real world is, or rather, they are like slaves of thoughts, and they will never know what they are encountering.
Regarding this point, Han Wensheng had many discussions with the old man after choosing to accept it gladly.
Han Wensheng's condition is "equivalent exchange", since he chose me to be the overall person in charge of the Tulaya project, then please be sure not to hide it from me, I want to know the truth of all this.
The old man didn't use Han Wensheng's father's words to prevaricate, he was very calm.
The most basic truth is 100 years.
"A hundred years?" Han Wensheng probably knew part of it when he joined Tulaya, but he didn't expect it to be so specific.
"Yes, in a hundred years, this is the result of data collection and comparison, human science and technology have developed to the current extent, and many logical data that used to rely on deduction can be replaced by accurate collection."
"That'...... Isn't there still a long way to go? Let's ......" Han Wensheng stopped talking, and he suddenly realized that it wasn't going to be that simple.
The old man's smile was very peaceful, and he replied: "I understand what you mean, a hundred years is indeed not a very short time for mankind, but it is like fireworks in the whole history of civilization, just a matter of an eye, but I think you should have misunderstood the concept of a hundred years." ”
Han Wensheng shuddered, his back shivered, and the more possibilities came to his mind, the worse and worse, so that he didn't want to hear the result very much now.
But the old man still said truthfully: "A hundred years of time is relative to the entire human race, not that the disaster will start after a hundred years, in fact, the disaster has already come, but it is still very slight, and even a dark cloud has not appeared, but if we really do nothing, then a hundred years later, the last human race will disappear on this planet, and human civilization will only have insignificant traces, and even the possibility of being discovered and studied by other civilizations does not exist." ”
Han Wensheng understood, he never expected that it had reached this point, but why is it that now, the empire and the coalition are still starting a war for some trumped-up accusations? Are they!?
No......
Han Wensheng immediately interrupted his own upright thoughts, because if he, a latecomer, could understand the meaninglessness of this war, would those who secretly led the Tulaya plan not notice?
But they did it anyway, and they threw countless lives into the fire and burned them all at any cost.
Han Wensheng did not understand the meaning behind this act for the time being, but he could vaguely understand that this war was definitely not as simple as the empire's denial of human rights.
"So, how bad is the current situation?" Han Wensheng couldn't help but ask after thinking for a while.
The old man took out a special crystal plate, looked at the data, and replied: "The current situation is not bad, the first batch of people to be quarantined has been classified, and they will fully complete their settlement in the Dome of Cerberus at the end of next month, and the time of the disaster is expected to be nineteen years later." ”
Cerberus!
Han Wensheng's expression couldn't help but tighten. The old man noticed this, he looked at Han Wensheng and said, "Although none of us want to accept it, this is the status quo, and besides, don't talk about it that far, just take yourself." ”
"Me?" Han Wensheng was really stunned this time, if it was about someone else, no matter how intimate it was, it would be painful at most, but if that suffering fell on his head, it would mean that it would completely change, and it would become a torment.
"Yes, you, your personal data has been pinpointed, do you want to hear about it?" The old man gave Han Wensheng a choice.
Knowing that death is inevitable from birth, but when everything becomes the norm and extends to the point where there is no concept, it is not so concerned.
Can ...... now Han Wensheng felt like a death row inmate, and the judge was asking him if he wanted to hear about his death.
Han Wensheng hesitated for a long time, and in the end, his answer was: "No need." ”
The old man nodded, he restored the crystal plate, and then placed the shrunken crystal core in front of Han Wensheng.
"It's a gift, though I'm not sure you'll like it."
Han Wensheng glanced at the crystal core on the table, and after hesitating for a while, he still chose to accept it.
……
On 1/23/88, the first batch of prototypes was completely destroyed.
The city-state of the Dusk is back to its empty and lonely state.
On this day, Han Wensheng sat in the room for a long time, holding a crystal core in his hand, which was a gift from the old man.
In the afternoon, Han Wensheng decided to go and check out the internal processes of the entire Tulaya himself.
At around two o'clock, Han Wensheng came to the place nicknamed "Fishing Ground".
This is where the basic embryo model originated, where large quantities of flesh-like humanoid embryos were salvaged ashore and transported to hatcheries in separate culture modules.
The principle of the fishery is classified at the highest level, and even Han Wensheng, who is now the chief inspector, cannot know it, so he can only watch silently, watching as these latex puppets produced in the factory are constantly caught and landed, and then transported away in batches.
After inspecting the fishing ground for about half an hour, Han Wensheng chose to leave because he couldn't stand the dirty, dark and fishy smell of the place.
His next stop was the hatchery.
The hatchery is the second ring of Tulaya, where the genetic sequences of all the inhabitants of the former Dusk City-State are stored, and have been classified and managed according to intensity, and quantified in batches and models.
At present, the first type of original embryos has been completely destroyed, and the second type of embryos has just been put on the agenda, so the current incubation room seems a little empty, and when you look at it, only dense honeycomb matrix-like storage compartments are closely arranged on the walls around the incubation room.
After staying in the incubation room for a while, Han Wensheng inexplicably felt a chill, obviously standing alone in the light, but Han Wensheng could clearly feel that millions of pairs of eyes were quietly observing him in the dark. It felt real and uncomfortable, so Han Wensheng only stayed in the hatchery room for less than ten minutes before leaving in a hurry.
His next stop was the hatchery.
The hatchery is located below the hatchery, which is a huge breeding farm with an area of about 19 square kilometers.
After the embryo comes into contact with the ancestral DNA sequence, it is placed in a petri dish in the hatchery for cultivation, but this form of cultivation is not a process of growth, but a process of reproduction and carving of the gene sequence.
Humanoid basic embryos salvaged from fishing grounds will have a unique appearance here, and will eventually be recreated into perfect puppets.
But these puppets are just shells of flesh and bones, and have no souls.
Then the next place where Han Wensheng goes is the last link in Tulaya - recovery.