Chapter 22: Distress in the City
This city is almost no different from the civilized city in Si Xingfeng's memory, the same interior is full of streets extending in all directions, and the same is covered with rows of high-rise buildings, even if it is no longer the traffic and people that once existed, but in the center of the crossroads, people can still feel the supreme prosperity that once existed here.
It's just that compared with the noisy and noisy things that existed in the past, Si Xingfeng only felt that the huge city in front of him seemed a little empty and lonely at this time. What was once a huge and prosperous place has now become such a depressed and lonely empty city, and Si Xingfeng can only sigh secretly, after all, there is nothing like the carving knife of time, which is the most secretly sharp, ruthless and cold.
"All grandiosities will end without a problem, and it will not even have time to announce their end, so what can withstand the ravages of time, and what will be left in the end?" couldn't help but close his eyes, Si Xingfeng, who was gradually falling into confusion, didn't realize it at this time, in fact, as early as the moment he stepped into the city, he had already been separated from the other three......
Any remnant of civilization that can be preserved has its own uniqueness, which does not contain special opportunities and wealth, but is often filled with great nightmares and horrors. As for this magical capital, which was once regarded as a "holy city" by the Western Continent, as an existence that indirectly created the entire magical extraordinary power system, of course, it is not just such a lonely old city on the surface.
Magic, or the power of the Devil's Way, is not as terrifying and wonderful as it is rumored to be, and to some extent, it is only a highly concrete manifestation of human potential. Of course, this potential is not available to everyone, as it involves the most mysterious and infinite possible organ in a person's body, the brain.
Many people think that a person's IQ depends on the degree of brain development, but in fact, the breadth of a person's brain domain does greatly affect a person, but it is by no means a decisive factor defined by mainstream science.
This so-called magical capital, long before the old civilization was swept away and destroyed by the storm of time and space, was a heresy in the eyes of many people in that era. Because the man who created this place is a crazy scientific maniac himself, he firmly believes that everyone's brain is 100% utilized, and less than 10% is not what mainstream science knows.
At the same time, he also pointed out that the greater role of the human brain is not to make human beings stronger, and even the reason why more than 90% of the brain domain in the human body is inactive is only to suppress the huge potential of the whole body and control the potential consciousness of the human body, so as to ensure that the living body itself can be in a state of continuous survival.
Because once you let go of this part of the brain's control over the subconscious, then the human body will instantly break through a certain boundary and release great potential, with almost extreme incredible speed and power, of course, this price is also the instant death of the entire life body.
The exploration of science is endless, so Dr. Edward, who is obsessed with the study of human potential, has built a huge city as a testing ground in a very inhumane way, and invested countless clones in it to use as experimental materials for his research on human potential. Despite the opposition of numerous humanitarians, Dr. Edward, with the help of countless fanatical followers, continued to conduct his research until the temporal storm descended on Earth.
However, despite the complete destruction of a large number of cities, and the destruction of many countries by the temporal storm, Edward and his experimental field survived. At the same time, he also accidentally discovered that the brain is actually interacting with its own innate chromosomes, so it will be limited to its own active state, thus affecting its own potential consciousness.
Through continuous research, he came to a conclusion that the human body will spontaneously put genetic shackles on itself in order to ensure the continued survival of the body, and the brain is the key to these shackles. Edward's theory of genetic shackles is actually the origin of the magical supernatural power system, but even the crazy Edward did not understand why there are genetic shackles in the human body after his life.
But that didn't matter anymore, since his death, his researchers have been scattered, and even because of their different philosophies, they have each taken some of Edward's research with them.
Some of them are committed to preserving the normality and integrity of the human consciousness and brain, and only carry out research on the modification of the human body, hoping to eliminate the impact of genetic locks on the human body in this way, because their continuous research has even extended and developed many kinds of extraordinary power systems, such as genetic tuning and mechanical modification.
The other group of people did the opposite, they constantly sought a way, hoping that the test subject could subjectively control their brains, turn their latent consciousness into subjective consciousness, so as to untie some of their own genetic shackles, and release a huge amount of energy, and the power system that gradually formed from this is magic.
However, in fact, there are obvious drawbacks in any kind of power system, the former will cause living beings to lose their main characteristics as human beings in addition to human consciousness, and it is difficult to continue their offspring, while the latter Although individual individuals often possess incredible powers, not only is the number of successful individuals scarce, but most of them have extremely short lifespans.
So, in order to perfect their power system, the two factions decided to join forces and return to the former experimental paradise of Dr. Edward. But they never imagined that in just a few decades, there would be many incredible changes in this former testing ground.
Somehow, the subjects who had been left behind escaped from the freezer chamber and were given a backup of the test report left behind by Edward. Although these subjects are clones, most of them are genetically excellent, so they not only quickly grasped Edward's research results, but also further strengthened them, multiplied, and completely occupied this former experimental field.
The war between the two sides soon broke out, and in the face of the more sophisticated and powerful weapons in the hands of the other side, the clones of the second and third generations resisted stubbornly, but were finally suppressed.
After all, it was not a glorious thing, so although most of the shortcomings of the magical supernatural power system were perfected through those second- and third-generation cloned test subjects, these researchers only verbally called the former experimental giant city "the holy city of magic", but never returned.
On the contrary, another part of the population used this place as a base camp and began to study more powerful alien beasts and monster beasts with high intelligence. In their view, the human body is congenitally limited, and only by fusing powerful genes can it carry the huge power after the release of the gene lock. It's just that what they don't know is that with the passage of time, this giant city has begun to move strangely in space for some reason, and maybe it will completely collapse under the combined action of time and space.
Of course, Si Xingfeng and the others also didn't know anything about it, just thinking that this was a prestigious ruin, thinking that they might be able to explore some wealth, they actually went into this place on their own initiative.
Blowing his nose, Si Xingfeng suddenly smelled a stench, and then realized that he seemed to have lost his mind for too long in this relic that everyone talked about. Hurriedly raising the dagger clenched in his right hand and blocking it in front of his chest, Si Xingfeng didn't even have time to open his eyes, and hurriedly bowed back three steps.
"Bell bell!" A crisp impact sound, Si Xingfeng only felt a strong force coming from the dagger in his hand, and it was almost difficult to hold the only weapon in his hand.
With solid legs, Si Xingfeng opened his eyes and carefully looked at the "enemy" in front of him, and pulled his left arm out of the shoulder strap of his backpack.
Although Si Xingfeng, who is eleven years old this year, is still a child in nature, his body has reached a terrifying height of more than 170 centimeters, because he is also diligent and hard-working on weekdays, although his muscles and bones are far from growing, he is far more tenacious than many of his peers.
Especially in the month since he left Jujing City, he has not only learned a lot of survival experience in the wild, but also more intuitively felt the darkness and bloodiness of human nature, as well as the cruel side of survival. It can be said that he has gradually integrated into this dark era of civilization from a "visitor from the sky", and has begun to have the potential to become an excellent warrior.
Although he is far from being well-informed, Si Xingfeng can be regarded as well-informed, and he has some experience in melee combat. He was glaring angrily at the ugly beast in front of him at this moment, his eyes didn't blink, he knew very well that such a thin beast was often a subordinate in the wilderness, as long as he was "ferocious" enough, there was a great possibility that the other party would be directly frightened back.
It's just that Si Xingfeng underestimated the other party's hunger, and also ignored how harmless and tender his white and handsome face was. Even if he is angry, Si Xingfeng can only achieve the effect of killing both male and female animals, of course, if animals also have human aesthetics......
I don't know what race this beast is, it looks like a cat and not a cat, like a fox and not a fox, and its body is covered with light yellow and pure white fur, which actually forms one grimace after another, which looks a little bluffing, but Si Xingfeng knows that in nature, it is often this kind of guy who looks very hideous and scary, and most of his actual combat effectiveness is not high!
After all, if they really have fangs and claws, as well as terrifying speed and strength, then such creatures are destined to be at the top of the food chain, where they need to rely on some kind of bells and whistles to increase their deterrent!
Seeing that the other party was only more than half a meter long, but he dared to attack himself, Si Xingfeng expected that if this little thing had either killed humans before, or it knew the body structure of humans very well, he couldn't help but put away two points of contempt for it.
After carefully looking at the other party's characteristics again, Si Xingfeng found that this guy actually had two tails, so he couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and muttered secretly, "Could it be that this is also a demon beast, but shouldn't the demon beasts be very powerful!" I've never heard of a beast with such strange characteristics? ”