Chapter 3: The End of Evolution

20 days after the outbreak of the virus, there was news that infected people had obtained superpowers, but they were quickly overwhelmed by the huge data of human deaths and the news of social security riots.

The first confirmed evolutionary case occurred on day 37 of the virus outbreak.

Washington, D.C., 25 September. The president and vice president of the world's most powerful country have not been spared from the virus, and the country remains in chaos and turmoil.

Legions of heavily armed U.S. police are trying to stop hundreds of agitated crowds of protesters from storming the gates of the White House. Suddenly, a middle-aged white man in his 30s slammed into the policeman's blast shield, jumped to the White House guardrail with several brisk steps, and then jumped up and easily jumped over the 2-meter-high White House guardrail and rushed into the lawn. Four White House agents rushed at the white man, slamming him to the lawn, two of whom pinned him to the ground.

This is when the mutation took place. The man roared and jerked to his feet, and threw away the two White House agents who were pressing on top of him. The man's body grew rapidly, his hair grew rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, he transformed into a humanoid monster about 8 feet tall and covered with golden hair more than half a foot long on his upper body. Looking at the man's face, he vaguely maintained his human facial features, except that his face became wider, his nose bone was longer, his mouth was larger, and he stared at a pair of scarlet eyes, like an African lion standing upright.

The man seemed to be stunned by his own changes, he first looked down at his hands, at the hairy chest that had long since torn his shirt, and then turned around and ran out with a "whoosh", and quickly disappeared into the corner of the street at a speed that exceeded the human limit.

The two White House agents who were still standing, the crowd protesting outside the lawn, and the large number of police officers blocking the block, were all stunned by the change in the scene before them, and the Secret Service officers even forgot to draw their guns and shoot.

However, the scene was completely recorded by NBC cameras and broadcast to the world on television screens......

New Delhi, India. On the dim street corner, there were bursts of heart-rending cries, a black and thin man was pressing a young girl in his 20s to the ground, the girl's skirt had already been torn, and the man was lying on the girl's body and shaking desperately. There were still five or six men around the girl, and no matter how much the girl cried, she didn't do anything, but laughed and stretched out her hand to knead the girl.

Suddenly, the girl's body began to flicker with electric light, accompanied by a crackling sound, and the man on her body was scorched away from the ground by the shock. Early the next morning, seven charred bodies were scattered across the streets of New Delhi.

Juarez, Mexico. In this Mexican-American border city with many notorieties such as "ghost town", "savage city" and "violent capital", it is common for several or dozens of people to be killed every day, and the massive number of human deaths caused by the virus has not alleviated the tyranny of the city. The death of the leader of the drug cartel has caused a vacuum of power and a redivision of power, and the fighting has become more intense and frequent than before, after all, the drug business in troubled times is better than ever, and too many people hope to use drugs to narcotize and escape.

The fight between the new drug cartel, the Santos Group, and the old drug cartel, the Sinaloa Group, has long been out of the news media's attention, but this day has once again attracted attention. Salcido, the leader of the Santos group, was shot in the chest, and instead of being killed, Salcido stood up in flames, generating fireballs from his hands and throwing them at the Sinaloa group. The fire killed more than 30 members of the Sinaloa drug cartel and burned down most of the slums of Ciudad Juárez.

Grand Lisboa Casino, Macau. A gambling table near the corner was crowded with a circle of people, and across from the dealer sat a short and fat middle-aged mainland man about 40 years old, who was leisurely crossing his legs in the chair, with a smile on his white face. Although the beautiful dealer opposite the fat man was expressionless, she was already sweating on her forehead.

The fat man had won all night, and the chips piled up in front of him were nearly 10 million dollars. She is the third dealer to change tonight, but she still can't stop the fat man from winning. The fat man is not a casino veteran, and he can even be said to be a complete novice, which the dealer can judge with years of experience and a handful of cards. The fat man is out of the thousands, because no one can win a night in a row, and the monitor in the casino backstage is also watching the fat man's every move, slowing down every action frame by frame, but he can't find a clue about the fat man's thousands.

The dealer looked at the fat man with puzzled eyes, "It's not by virtue of his tricks, it's not like his novice-like clumsy movements, it seems, it seems that he can see through every card!" The dealer was frightened by her thoughts, and she jerked her head to see a pair of eyes that shone with a strange sheen......

In less than a month, more than 330 stories of human beings awakening various abilities from all over the world appeared in newspapers and television media. However, what about the awakened who have not been discovered or reported? And how many?

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a statement on October 15: "The continuous awakening of human abilities around the world reaffirms the center's naming of the 'God Virus', which is the beginning of the re-evolution of all mankind." ”

The French Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology released a message on October 16: "The center has found a special energy fluctuation in the body of the Abnormal Awakener, which we believe is an unknown special biological energy, in order to solve the mystery of the re-evolution of human beings, the Center hopes that more Abnormal Awakened people can participate in the research as volunteers and contribute to the well-being of the entire human race!" ”

An organization called the "Alliance of Superpowers" issued a statement through the Associated Press on October 17, "We strongly oppose any form of research and experiments against superpowers, and we will take severe retaliatory measures against certain research institutions for arresting and experimenting on superpowers for the benefit of all mankind!" As the first group of evolutionaries among the human race, we are willing to become the guardians of the human world, but we demand the corresponding respect and rights! ”

On October 21, the China Laboratory of Specific Functions issued an important statement:

First, the current emergence of superpowers around the world is not to be overly surprised, for more than 70 years we have been insisting on the study of human specific functions, long before the outbreak of the virus we have tracked and verified a number of people with special functions, in our observation cases, someone was able to light dry wood without any fire, there was a little girl who could see things without eyes, and some people gradually gave birth to pieces of fish scales as soon as they got out of the water, and the fish scales slowly disappeared as soon as they left the water. We believe that humans have superpowers in their own right, and that unknown viruses only stimulate or accelerate the generation of superpowers.

2. Based on years of research data and recently reported cases, we believe that the known superpowers can be divided into four groups: 1. Transformation system, in which humans transform into common animals such as tigers, leopards, and bears, and have the distinctive characteristics of these animals, such as the swift speed of felines, sharp claws, etc.; 2. Control system, human beings can control water, fire, wind, thunder and other elements, such as igniting objects out of thin air and freezing objects; 3. Spiritual sense, human eyes, ears, nose, even brain, heart and other specific organs or specific parts have been evolved, such as the ability to see, ultra-farsightedness and telepathy; 4. The occult system, we also know very little about the abilities of this department, and the known abilities include luck, curses, etc.