Volume V, Chapter 17, The Land of Mutants, April 2119

Yang Yiyi looked at the ground from the helicopter window, and could vaguely see a black dot on the yellow wasteland below—she knew that it was the exit of the anthill, and it was from this exit that Ah Zhu had escaped from the anthill. She already knew everything that was going on in the anthill, and knew the details of everything better than anyone else.

The helicopter landed on the wasteland, and Yang Yiyi ordered the guards and other entourages to stand by while she entered the anthill alone. Unlike the heavily armed guards, Yang Yiyi did not wear combat uniforms and did not carry a gun. She was just wearing a plain skirt and dressed as if she was going to go shopping in the commercial center.

Four months after Zhang Xiaozhu escaped from the anthill, the anthill was restarted several times, and the government of country A also sent people into the anthill to check, but no real person was sent to the anthill, and those who went to perform the task were all stand-in robots.

Now, the power of the anthill was restored again, and at the entrance, Yang Yiyi boarded the train and started the train, and the train slowly descended into the depths of the anthill along an extremely gentle slope. The train moved at a constant speed, the lights in the tunnel were visually stretched and moved to the rear, the breeze stirring her long hair. As the train moved forward, the wheels pressed against the track joints, making a rhythmic clicking sound, and this slow beat brought Yang Yi into the depths of darkness, and memories began to emerge in front of her eyes:

In the memory, the time goes back to two years ago, that little hotel in the wasteland, that motel, that thunderstorm night. Yang Yiyi gradually realized that she had been infected by the protozoa, but, still, like those who dare not face the facts and diseases, she knew that there was no antidote but still needed an antidote to comfort herself, whether it was effective or not.

This medicine was bought by Yang Yiyi on the black market of country A with Sima Aya on his back, which can inhibit the dominance of the protozoa to a certain extent, so that the infected person does not show dominant characteristics during the blood test, so as to avoid the inspection, so that these people who have escaped the inspection will not be sent to the quarantine area. In a society with a highly developed technology and market like country A, there are such advantages or disadvantages.

So, after waiting in the small hotel, both of them got the results of blood tests, and the blood test results were both "not infected".

Yang Yiyi recalled the last night in the small hotel, the night of the thunderstorm. She was so hot that she went to the shower. She didn't expect that she would faint in the bathroom and be kidnapped by the giant bat, and then, she learned that the giant bat was actually sent by Ah Zhu.

…… The train is still moving slowly, and memories are still slowly emerging......

The breeze stirred her long hair, and the sound of the wind sounded like Ah Zhu's words. Speaking of which, Yang Yiyi is a little nostalgic for the days when he lived in a fantasy, or in a dream, because no matter how terrible the dream is, it is less than one-ten-thousandth of reality. Moreover, those dreams were carefully prepared by Ah Zhu for herself, she didn't know that she was kidnapped by the giant bat, nor did she know that the giant bat was sent by Ah Zhu, she didn't even know the existence of the giant bat, you know, at that time, unknown creatures had not appeared on the land of country A.

Yang Yi thought that he had returned to Country C and returned to his villa. In the dream, she didn't know how she returned from country A to country C all at once, and at that time, the feeling in the dream made her feel that the experience of country A was a dream. And Sima Aya, Shengluoge, Angel City, the robots of the city, and the consulate of Angel City...... It's all more like a dream.

However, like all other people who are immersed in dreams and think that real experiences are dreams, if it is really impossible to distinguish between dreams and reality, then just remember that dreams, no matter how beautiful, always wake up.

…… The train moves forward in darkness, just like the life of mutants, there is light from the zenith, but no light penetrates into the bottom of the heart, so in the heart, there is still darkness...... In Yang Yiyi's memories, whether it is Zhang Xiaozhu's secret club, or those bars where mutants trade...... Everything is immersed in darkness......

If we forget the mask of civilization, society says that mutants are just a dark forest, and unfortunately, they are not the hunters of this forest, but the prey. Mutants don't even have to aspire to be useful to society, nor do they have to work hard to become a useful person because they are born "useful people" and their bodies are full of "useful genes".

One day two years ago, in the illusion, Yang Yiyi remembered that Ah Zhu said that he would take him to see a laboratory. The name of that laboratory is Anthill, in fact, just like the current reality, in the illusion of that day, Yang Yiyi had already stepped on this train.

When Yang Yiyi's memories came here, reality and memories had completely overlapped, and she knew that it was the first time she had been here, but she felt that she had already been here countless times.

In the illusion, Zhang Xiaozhu took her to the anthill and saw a child lying on the real table of the laboratory, he and her child, Zhang Quying. Being able to know, to be able to imagine is not the same as to see it in a fantasy with your own eyes. The child struggled, and the cold handcuffs handcuffed him to the test table. Through the glass, Yang Yiyi saw the child's screaming and struggling, but she couldn't hear the child's voice. She pleaded with the people in the lab to spare her children, and they couldn't hear her screams.

At this time, in the illusion, Zhang Xiaozhu was standing beside her, he was supporting her, but he couldn't save the child...... And then there was the bloody scene......

The child's blood splashed on the glass, splashed into Yang Yiyi's eyes, and dripped into her heart.

"I think you should understand what I mean by now." Zhang Xiaozhu said to her, "We must have our own country. ”

…… The train moved forward in the dark, and the light at the entrance became weaker and weaker, shrinking into a point of light, which was getting smaller and smaller, and the only light in the darkness was slowly being swallowed up. However, Yang Yiyi has always known that Ah Zhu's persistence in moving forward in the darkness is because he has a huge light in his heart - the country of mutants, the country of mutants themselves, is not a small company, but a big country, or even a planet......

A trace of tears flashed in the corners of Yang Yiyi's eyes, Ah Zhu is a good man, not only because he saved his life, but also because of the huge light in his heart, even from the most secular point of view, he is definitely better than other men.

However, what Yang Yiyi didn't expect was that she herself would take over the light in his heart on this day, in order to let this light continue to live.

He told her that God had given him great power, but at the same time, it was also devouring his personality...... Time is running out.

She asked him, what is God? What is God? What does it look like? He said, I don't know, I just can hear God's voice, and God has chosen him to be his spokesman on this planet - but only for a short time, and after God devours his personality, he will no longer remember her, nor will he remember the child, and the light in his heart will be extinguished.

"I copied Sigwood, Gordon, and a lot of others...... They will be completely at your disposal, because, in the ecosystem that God has established, you have a level 1.5 mark. My mark is 2, God's mark, for now, it's 1. Your mark is higher than mine, so you may call on my resources, but you can't let God find out, God's mark is higher than all of us, and if God knows that we are usurping TA's resources, he will be able to manipulate all of us. ”

"However, the markers you have are not whole numbers, and I surmise that God has no way of knowing of your existence."

"Why?" "I don't know, but, giant bats, hellhounds, everything in the nest is an integer identifier...... I don't have time to explain that much to you, but he's going to trust me, Yichi. ”

……

"If one day, we succeed, or you succeed, remember to come to the anthill and tell me, maybe I can hear you. Promise me. ”

"I promise you."

That's why Yang Yi came to the anthill, she came to tell him that she had succeeded. Even though she hadn't spoken to him for a long time, and in her mind's eye, he might have fallen asleep, still, she had to keep her promise and come to the anthill to tell him.

The tunnel through which the train travels resembles the passages in the lair. Because they're just as dark. In the lair, Yang Yi had seen countless unknown creatures, and if they were giant insects, then those huge eggs in the passage were eggs.

The dark train tunnels are so similar to the dark lair passages because they both have a glimmer of light. The glimmer of the tunnel comes from the indicator light, and the glimmer in the nest comes from the eyes and body of the unknown creature, the green fireflies, the green lantern-like abdominal cavity, and the eggs of those green fireflies.

She had walked among the green fireflies, six eyes, twelve eyes, countless eyes staring at her, silently torturing her, questioning whether she was one of the nest, for her white, smooth, shred of gourd, human body was so different from everything crude in this nest.

Perhaps, however, in their aesthetics, the crude is the beautiful.

But in the end, Yang Yiyi later learned that they were all just slaves of the mark after all, and the highest "mark" of these unknown creatures, no more than level 4, they could only avoid and make way for her, a way from the dark lair to the surface world, a way to rebirth.

Yang Yi remembered that it was the longest road she had ever walked, even longer than all the roads she had traveled in her life combined, and although they made way for her, she still trembled and walked on thin ice, their sharp teeth could easily kill her, and she did not know if one would appear in front of her and no longer make way for her.

The nightmares of the world were gathered on this dark path, her body was huge, strange, and sharp, and all the vicious eyes were focused on her small body, as if her eyes alone could eat her.

That day, she came out of the darkness without looking back and did not dare to look back...... And now, she was going back to the darkness by train to tell him that he had succeeded.

--Through the glass, Yang Yiyi saw the child's screaming and struggling, but she couldn't hear the child's voice. She pleaded with the people in the lab to spare her children, and they couldn't hear her screams.

(End of chapter)