Fifteen years ago, the Federation, the city of New Billing.

The white coat was wearing sunglasses, wearing the same white coat, and playing with a scalpel in one hand, but looking at his expression, it seemed a little gloomy.

This is the government building of Billin City, which is said to be a building, but it is actually a simple six-story tin house. The dry air currents and rough yellow sand blow in the face, and the artificial sun overhead exudes an irritating smell, and this temperature is like entering a sauna, with the smell of burning pipes.

The whole of New Billing, built in imitation of the old western cowboy story of the Federation, the wooden buildings rarely exceed four floors, sitting on the top of the government building, you can easily look out over the whole of Billing, looking at the dilapidated tavern, the wooden signs gently swaying in the wind, and the occasional doorbell tinkling.

When the white coat walked onto the rooftop, the federal government officials who reported to Cheng Qingming were passing by him. The white coat could see that this person's eyes were no longer focused, and even his gift would not make this person react in any way.

The entire New Billing City is almost under the control of Cheng Qing. The old city of Billing on the surface is facing the fate of demolition, but "Nameless" has been evacuated and scattered to all corners of the Federation.

"You can do this kind of thing!" The white coat stood in front of Cheng Qingming, put his hands in his pockets, and bowed his head and shouted.

It was only after he came here in the past few days that Cheng Qingming had begun to use his gifts to control the remaining men, women, and children in Billin City. Most of the people left here are old people in their old age, and even many of them are immigrants from the East. Their descendants followed Cheng Qing's life, but the latter was already in the city, implementing his true strategy.

In the face of his questioning, Cheng Qingming did not speak. Dressed in black, he wore pure black gloves and his side face was like an ice sculpture, looking at the city.

He could feel the connection between the city and him, and the people of the city would resist the invaders if he wanted to, but they were already lifeless shells. His gift can control people's minds, but it's like planting a seed in the brain and writing a program. These people under his control are outwardly no different from ordinary people, and it is only when he activates the gift again that the spirit of these people will be completely out of control.

They are still alive, but even Cheng Qingsheng himself doesn't know if they are alive. Even if he studied his own brain waves, and even typed the idea of a slicing study, he found nothing. Gifts have always been the most mysterious thing in this world, and it is difficult to do a comprehensive analysis without a sufficiently large intelligent life.

"Eighty thousand people in Billing! You control fifty thousand! Are they all dead? What exactly is your gift? Ever since the white coat saw Cheng Qing's gift, he never dared to take off the sunglasses on his face. He saw with his own eyes that when he was doing the experiment, the federal data analyst who was used as the subject of the experiment was guided by him to commit suicide with a gun.

It's a lot like hypnosis, but it's a deeper manipulation. People's underlying thinking is modified, the brain gives them a suicidal command, and they can't even control themselves. At that moment, it was as if they had turned into a computer, and Cheng Qingming was on the side, typing on the keyboard and holding the mouse.

"If you are not controlled by me, the result will be the same, the Federation has given up here." Cheng thought about it lightly, and finally chose to speak, he pointed to the city under his feet with his chin, and said: "The energy distributed here is almost the least among the cities with the same population in the entire federation. It looks like a western cowboy style, but just to keep the greenery and clean water without spending energy. No one here is more calculating than the Federation, and in twenty years, only 80,000 old people will be left here, who will die in silence. ”

"But that's not a reason for you to use your bounty on them, what are you putting so much effort into?" The white coat knew that it would take a lot of time to use this gift, and it took a whole year to complete the task of Billin City. For everyone, he needs to let them down and talk to him, he needs to look them in the eye and inject his words into each other's hearts little by little. And all this can't be discovered by the Federation, they will regularly come to inspect the city and build a relatively complete monitoring system, but in the end, even the "friends" can't find the traces left by Cheng Qing's life here.

"I need the Federation to fear me, to know that I don't just get inside them and control the most important people. More importantly, I was able to control tens of thousands of people without leaving a trace. Speaking of this, he showed a sly smile: "There is another point, Zhong Liwang told me, but it has nothing to do with you. ”

The white coat gave up the idea of convincing him, everything had already been done, and it was done when he was busy with other things, no matter how much he struggled, it would be useless.

But for him, he still can't let go. This is tens of thousands of lives, and he has never seen pigs and sheep slaughtered before joining "Nameless". The federal control of meat is very strict, and only in the factories can you see blood. Now, he didn't see blood, but he always felt that under the scorching sun, countless souls were fluttering upward. Float out of this cage, out of the thick crust of the earth, to the heaven where Christ is.

"The boy you sent last time, I have checked his body, and he will be cultivated for a while." The white coat also slowly regained his cold tone, and after staying with Cheng lightly for a long time, he even felt that he had become like him, an emotionless machine: "It is not unreasonable for the Federation to establish that academy, different areas of the human brain are in charge of different behaviors, but there is a special area, which is related to gifts." Scanning the brains of those of us shows that this area is a few percent more active than the average person, and this activity reaches a peak around the age of eighteen. Like a spark, if you can't trigger the surrounding nerve dendrites at that time, you may not be able to awaken the gifts. ”

"It's nice to find the cause, but my question is why so many people have awakened to the Gift in recent years." Cheng Qingming asked, "Or did they all hide before?" ”

The white coat looked at Cheng Qingming's eyes, which flashed with a playful light. He understood that there was something in his words, and since he, an ordinary medical student, could figure out the source of the gift in a few years, the Federation must have known it before they did. And if they're the government, the one at the top, the only thing they want to do is to make more and more of that gift.

So the answer is obvious.

"They're selecting genes." Cheng Qingming looked at the still innocent and young face of the white coat, he was no longer as white as the white coat after being exposed to the wind and sun, and he was only twenty-eight years old, so he had a sense of vicissitudes that Zhongli Wang had: "Although this process is very slow and takes time, behind every successful gene, there are thousands of innocent lives in your eyes." White, a lot of innocent people died, the Federation killed. ”

Hearing this, the white coat seemed to feel that the air in his lungs had been drained. This is the truth he has studied in the past few years, but he didn't want to believe it until Cheng Qingming said it lightly.

The world is not as beautiful as he imagined, and the hidden evils in this country, he can't imagine at all.

He can acknowledge natural selection, acknowledging that differences between people create class, produce sin, and even nourish death. But he will not allow a person or an organization to have selfish motives to condone such evil.

He wanted to overthrow the country, just as Wharton had done hundreds of years ago when he read the Declaration of Independence in Congress, telling all Commoners that all men are created equal

Just as the two of them were standing on the rooftop and thinking about life, on the street not far away, a middle-aged man in a black military uniform was striding towards them. He appeared abruptly, and by the time the two saw his bearded face, his voice was already behind them.

In this second, he slowly walked a distance of several hundred meters.

"Long time no see." His tone was a little deeper, and there were a few more wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and he looked a little tired.

"It's done here, what are you doing?" Cheng Qingming tilted his head sideways and didn't look at him.

"Let's take a final look at you." Zhong Liwang showed the Federation's trademark laugh, and stepped forward to give the white coat a bear hug: "I'm leaving." ”

"Leave?" The white coat was a little surprised: "Only you?" ”

"Cheng, you go get busy, I'll talk to him alone." Zhong Liwang also had that inscrutable smile on his face, but Cheng Qingming seemed to understand, and turned over and jumped off the government building.

The stunned white coat stood side by side with Zhong Liwang on the rooftop, looking at the barren land and barren wilderness around him, without a trace of life.

"Looks like you still have a lot to think through." Zhong Liwang put his hands behind his back.

"It's time to figure it out." The white coat is very decisive.

"Now that you have thought it through, then tell me, what we are doing now is not for our own selfishness, for our own one-sided prejudices, standing on the opposite side of the government?" Zhong Liwang often hit the nail on the head: "The government has a government purpose, although it seems inhumane. We have our dreams, even if they don't seem very noble. As long as you choose to pick up a gun, you are both a victim and a predator. ”

"But we're for freedom!" He argued.

"Everybody is for freedom." Zhong Liwang spread his hands: "So you don't know it yet, there is no real freedom in this world. Well, I don't have time to argue with you right now. Speaking of this, he interrupted the white coat that he had said many times: "You can be emotional, you can be angry, I don't care, but there are some facts, you have to remember clearly." For thousands of years, people have been fighting each other to take possession of resources. As long as a person has a pistol, he has a chance to defeat the other. But such an opportunity, in the coming decades, will hardly happen. The power of the people is being weakened, and even if hundreds or thousands of ordinary people are united now, they will not be able to storm Carmel City. 'Nameless' may be the last team to pry the wheels of history with the strength of ordinary people, and the rifles in their hands represent the end of a backward era. Soon, it was the world of computers. You worry about their future, but I'm telling you, these ordinary people will die, we will also die, too weak will die, too strong will die, too impulsive will die, too calm may not necessarily not die, do nothing, of course will die. Each of us is on the road to death, white, watch the road under your feet, make your choice, this is your freedom. ”

The white coat listened, and was silent.

He didn't understand and didn't agree, but he didn't want to object.

Because even if he can convince the person in front of him, he needs to convince himself in the end.

"Shiro, do you believe in fate?"

The white coat shook his head, representing the attitude that a young man should have.

"But I'll tell you." Zhong Liwang's smile disappeared into this world, and only that sentence still echoed in the ears of the white coat.

"Believe it or not, it's fate."

“ALL IS DESITINY”