Chapter 10: Escape (2)
The starry sky in his pocket burst out, absorbing all the dark energy circulating in Hanyu's body into himself. Satisfied, he burped and returned to his pocket.
He calmly withdrew his hand from the glove. Walk in front of the supervisor. "Go to 5004" in a cold tone that is not a request, but an order.
"You—" The director was surprised by his behavior, and was about to ask, but was interrupted by Hanyu.
"Everyone has their own secrets. I have it, and so do you. Why snoop? ”
In room 5004 is a metal cage containing a live, intact worm. Seeing Hanyu's arrival, he immediately ran to the border of the prison and looked at him curiously.
Hanyu tugged hard, and found that the iron cage did not move at all.
"This is Star Alloy, the material used in the construction of space ships. Don't talk about this, even a prison made of ordinary iron elemental is not something you can break. The director behind Hanyu didn't know what kind of psychology he was talking about.
Han Yu tilted his head to the side and glanced back at him. It seems that this person called Director Yu is not a vicious person.
Turning around and putting his hand over the cell and on its head, it immediately crouched.
Looking at the insect's satisfied expression, the five-year prison seemed to be just a daily routine for it, and Han Yu's heart was inexplicably sad.
He lamented in his heart that he couldn't save it from the laboratory, and he didn't want it to suffer the same thing as another bug, so he could only choose today as the end of its life's journey.
I'm sorry! His hand gently covered its three pairs of eyes. A wave of consciousness is transmitted to the bug's brain. The bent limbs clung to the ground because they could no longer support the weight of the body, and the towering head slowly lowered and prostrated on the limbs.
There was no wailing, no pain, and the end of life was silent, leaving only a quiet laboratory.
Energy and matter that could not be observed with the naked eye appeared from the insect's body again, but Hanyu's consciousness saw a mass of matter floating on the insect's body, which was swallowed by the starry sky.
Is this dark matter? A substance that cannot interact with light in any way and is not observed by humans. The Zerg's body seems to be composed of matter and dark matter, so is it this dark energy that replaces the oxidative phosphorylation pathway for the insect swarm in the experiment?
Echoing what Mother Worm had said, he wondered if he was also made of this matter and dark matter, rather than the single substance that humans had always said.
Looking at the starry sky through the window, it seems that there are still many unknown mysteries in this universe, and human beings think that they have explored 99% of things, but they are only the tip of the iceberg.
Just as classical physics was able to explain most observed phenomena, Michelson proposed that the theory of physics was nearing completion, and that in the future, the most numerical measurements would be made by adding a few numbers to the decimal point. But eventually the advent of light bridged the quantum mechanics.
In the same way, when human beings stepped into the cosmic age, the technology of genes was relatively perfect, and everyone thought that they were standing at the peak of the era, surrounded by white clouds. Science and technology began to favor civilian use, and the development of theories reached a bottleneck, but they did not see the distant peaks towering into the clouds, and they were just a stumbling block under the feet of giants.
The era will come to an end, and the arrival of the swarm is like a slap in the face of the four empires. Maybe technology can defeat the insect swarm, but the composition of the zerg and the way the energy in the body flows are still something that the existing theories cannot explain for them.
"Let's go." The supervisor leads the way in front, and Hanyu follows behind.
The well-defended experimental building was like nothing in front of Han Yu, and he was able to come and go freely just by virtue of him.
Director Yu passed by the security guard at the gate with an expressionless face, and Han Yu looked at the doorman who was about forty years old in front of him and called Hello uncle.
"It's time to get off work." Hearing Hanyu's greeting, the security guard responded enthusiastically.
"Well, I'm done with my own business, and I'm going home."
Step on Director Yu's driverless car, drive all the way through the experimental base, and enter the bustling city.
Neon flashes outside the window, and driverless cars speed down the suspended road. The high-rise buildings that once fell in the flames of war are gone; The cracked ground has been repaired; The burned trees have been replaced by verdant trees; I don't know if the fallen insect corpse will be buried in this bright city, or just like him, it will enter a cage that is unknown to the world.
In the director's office, the fallen security guard woke up slowly. Dizzy, he slapped his head twice in order to sober himself up.
Suddenly sobered up, and secretly said in his heart that it was not good! He hurriedly rushed out.
"The war was gone, and now it's prosperous." Han Yu looked at the busy world in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.
"If it weren't for you! The world would be better. The supervisor found that he could speak, and couldn't help but retort with words.
"We?" Han Yu was puzzled by his words. He never knew what he had done, only that he had been imprisoned in a container since his soul had been in this new body.
Maybe someone else is at fault, but it's not his fault. How could he accept this black cauldron for no reason? The clash of words is nothing more than the art of rhetoric.
"Without you, at least I wouldn't have been coerced into being one of the terrariums."
"You are dedicating yourself to the empire and to the progress of mankind." Although his body couldn't move, he suppressed anger in his words, and he was very angry at Hanyu's behavior of running away and kidnapping.
"Devotion? The swarm invaded the planet in order to survive that day, and today you are forcing us to sacrifice our lives in the name of dedication. If you are talking about dedication for the sake of your own so-called empire and the selfish desire of human progress, and you can arbitrarily imprison and kill a few, what is the difference between it and the killing of a swarm for survival? ”
"I..."
"Maybe you want to say that as a member of the human race, it is a matter of course to dedicate yourself to progress. So tell me what are the laws of the Empire? Isn't the law for the weak, lowly, bleeding, weeping 'man'? What is it that you, at the behest of the Empire, are using us as experiments against the law? Could it be that in the name of progress, the law is a thin piece of paper for people to trample on? Are the people not human beings?
Or do you want to ignore the law and subvert society for your own selfish desires? Maybe society will not be subverted by the evaporation of a few insignificant people, but the law has been burned in dark corners. Maybe eventually humanity will acquire the technology of the swarm and make a leap forward, but what about civilization? Is our civilization progressing? Or is it already 'confused' because of paranoid progress? ”