Volume V, Chapter 28, The Field of Genes (IV), October 2119

Sima Aya opened her eyes and woke up, she found herself lying on the beach, and the bright moon in the sky showed that it was still night. She tried to struggle to get up from the ground, but she was weak, and her body was as soft as the soft sand.

I don't know how long it took for her strength to finally recover.

She stood up and tried to find her lost little backpack, which contained a lot of important things, but something else caught her attention.

She found herself standing in a shadow and was startled. Then I found that it was not a shadow, but a large pit with an unusual shape, the pit was very large, but it was not deep, and the depth was only the depth of one step, it was a shallow pit, and the light in the pit was darker, which gave people the illusion that it was a shadow.

The shape of the pit was very different, and after a while, by the light of the moon, Sima Aya could judge what it was.

That's something she's seen, on the battlefield in Vegas, at that time, as Xu Xiaoting, she manipulated stand-in robots to fight them, and she had seen their corpses quickly dissolve, or rather, decompose themselves.

Then, there will be traces on the ground. Especially soft ground like sandy beaches.

The battlefield in Las Vegas is still fresh in her memory, and it was also a moonlit night in her memory. The only difference was the smell of the air, and this time, she experienced it herself.

There was still a smell in the shallow pit, a smell hidden in the salty smell of the sea, but she felt she could sense it as a Cerberus decomposed.

She remembered her previous dreams, or rather, hallucinations, of the big dog that swam towards her......

If it was the big dog who saved him, then what killed it? After it saved itself, what happened.!?

None of this seems to be known.

However, by the moonlight, Sima Aya still found some other clues: some footprints, huge footprints. Stretching from the seashore, it should have been left not so long ago, and it has not been completely washed and erased by the waves.

Knapsack.! Hope rose in her heart, and she looked to the sea at the end of the footprint. But that damn backpack is also made of the stealth material of the "Spirit Butterfly", and it is also completely invisible. She realized that there was little hope of finding the backpack until the battery ran out of power.

She hated it and kicked her foot in the sand a few times: money, food, water, and a ton of basic tools were in that damn backpack.

She would rather have her backpack destroyed than fall into someone else's hands or even become a clue for the enemy to track her.

In any case, it is not convenient to stay here for a long time. Sima Aya had to find food and water as soon as possible.

Which direction should I go.!? Sima Aya looked at the compass on her watch, trying to confirm the direction. However, at this time, she noticed that there was some kind of abnormal jitter in the compass, and she began to wonder if the compass was broken.

And it seems that this ghost has caused me to lose my way in the sea. She cursed a few words, and had the urge to pull the damn compass out of the watch dial and throw it on the ground and stomp it a few times.

When she was angry, the compass needle vibrated even more violently.

Sima Aya looked into the distance, and after observation, she couldn't determine whether she had crossed the border between A-Watt and Moxigo, and whether she was in A-Watt's territory now.

She is now empty-handed, severely overdrawn, and although she has been through similar situations many times, her heart rate still can't go down.

The only consolation is that the "spirit butterfly" on her body still seems to be working normally, because she does not see her figure cast in the moonlight on the beach.

It wasn't until she saw the street sign that Sima Aya breathed a sigh of relief. By this time, it was almost dawn.

The street sign marked a small town with an arrow, Lupu Town, this is a small town in country A, and Sima Aya suddenly felt a lot more energetic. Although I lost my backpack, I didn't starve to death in the wilderness.

There is a fence outside the town, but it is broken and broken, and it is a dilapidated scene. The dirt in the middle of nowhere, with the marks of armored vehicles or tanks that had recently been crushed, as well as the tracks of Cerberus, alerted Sima to how similar she had been to the scene in Vegas.

The breeze whimpered, and the sense of desolation hit the nose, which made the nose sour, perhaps because of the untimely sentimentality of women.

Nearby, there is a dilapidated net wall, and through the net wall, looking into the distance, in the faintly lit skylight background, there is an iron tower, at a glance, it looks like the Eiffel Tower in Paris, but unlike the Eiffel Tower, there is a huge spherical structure at the top of the tower in front of you.

Sima Aya didn't feel a chill down her spine: If the judgment is correct, that thing should be an "infrasonic radiation tower", and the giant spherical structure is an infrasonic antenna.

Infrasonic and ultrasound are not in the audible sound wave frequency band, but, unlike ultrasound, infrasound waves can have a devastating blow to animal internal organs and brains.

If her judgment is correct, she herself is now standing within the effective radiation range of the radiation tower.

If she hurried away from the tower now, of course she could stay away from danger and death, but it was only temporary. She had to find water and food, and there must have been plenty of them in town.

The entire town, Sima Aya believes, is under the protection of the "Infrasonic Tower". When Cerberus and Giant Bats attack, there is always a broadcast notification such as an air raid siren to notify the townspeople to enter a bunker that can be isolated from infrasound.

Since the radio is not playing now, it should be safe for the time being.

After being hungry, Sima Aya's stomach rumbled again. She didn't think much about it, and under the protection of the "Spirit Butterfly", she successfully entered a house in the town.

The house was empty, but there was food in the fridge, so she ate some bread and milk.

Then check upstairs and downstairs in the house repeatedly, preferably there are no dogs in the house, otherwise it will be very troublesome. When she was working in the Force, Sima Aya had a deep relationship with police dogs, and she would not hurt them unless she had to.

Just as Sima Aya entered the basement to check, she heard the sound of the door opening from the first floor of the ground.

"Oh, shit!" A little girl's voice was heard, "Jacob, are you stealing food again?" "I didn't, Dancy, I swear! You always don't believe me. ”

"No wonder mom always beats you!" Dancy said.

The voices of the little boy and the little girl don't sound like they're in the stage of changing their voices.

Probably not too old.

And, obviously, it's a brother and sister.

"It's supposed to be Wheelman's steal." Jacob argued.

"Hmph, Polunman is just a doll." Dancy ruthlessly exposed Jacob's lies.

……

The two did not argue for long about the food being stolen, and went to sleep in the upstairs room.

Sima Aya followed the two to their bedroom, where there was no bed, and instead of the bed were two "big coffins" made of metal. It's obviously not made for the little ones. I don't know if it was out of fear, the two little ones squeezed into the same "coffin" to sleep.

Sima Aya guessed that these "big coffins" should be shielding devices for infrasonic radiation - this is really good!

She sensed that in the darkness, the shadow of death had moved away from her.

If there are other shields in this house, why don't you be able to rest here? Sima Aya checked again, and it just so happened that in the bedroom next door, there were still a few "big coffins", which seemed to be redundant and reserved.

After the two of them fell asleep, Sima Aya looked around the room again, first of all, she needed money, food, clothing, and travel, and everything had to be spent. However, before she could find the money, the diary of a little blonde girl, Dancy, was found.

She quickly skimmed through the diary and learned that in this town, in this cottage, there lived a warm family, parents, sisters and brothers, everything was perfect, if it weren't for the "plague" that changed all this.

Mom and Dad are dead, and 8-year-old Dancy and 6-year-old Jacob have come to terms with the fact that they still have their grandparents and other relatives, but they are not allowed to have contact with other relatives and must live in the Western Quarantine Zone. There are many such towns in the Western Quarantine Zone.

Sima Aya believes that there are also many young sleepers like Dancy and Jacob.

In Dancy's diary, Sima Aya learns that when they stay awake, they are asked to play a game that they have no choice but to play or there will be no food for them. This is clearly a form of mental labor.

Sima Aya didn't know what kind of game it was, but when she used to exist as "Xu Xiaoting", she had done some tests with Dr. Tang Jingtao, and these tests were also playing games, when the operator thought he was playing a game, the stand-in robot he operated was completing other real operations in reality.

This method of operation is called by the doctor: hallucinatory operation, and the operator does not know what he is doing in the real world, only knows that he is playing and must play the game well.

In this way, children can also take on the work of adults through stand-in robots.

Dancy and Jacob seem to be the more gifted kind of children, and from the diary, Sima Aya discovers that the two of them are in charge of a kind of "real-time strategy" game, that is, they are in charge of arranging troops, and they are junior managers in a certain hallucinatory operating system.

And not ordinary executors.

For these children, it was already the war years.

In her diary every day, Dancy would write, "Mom and Dad, I miss you. Sima Aya could read this sentence but couldn't understand it, and for a moment, she felt that she was also like Dan Xi, a little girl, just like the little girl in the mirror who appeared in that strange dream countless times...... She didn't want to experience something at this time, and then fall into the whirlpool of emotions in her heart, after all, she still had a task to complete.

According to the requirements of the leader, she should send a secret email to the secret mailbox at least once a week to report her work.

Therefore, Sima Aya decided to borrow the computer on the second floor of this room tonight to see if she could connect to the Internet.

If you can connect to the Internet, then there is a lot more you can do than just be able to report successfully.

Right here, the sound of the door opening came from the first floor again!

--Sima Aya followed the two to their bedroom, where there was no bed, and instead of the bed were two "big coffins" made of metal.

(End of chapter)