Chapter 19: Terrible Divergence

After Song Ming and Caroline removed the general energy package in the car, they quietly moved forward in the city with their backpacks.

After knowing that Caroline was a humanoid tyrannosaurus, Song Ming didn't dare to let her guard down, she was so terrifying, are there more powerful watchmen in this world? He just wants to trade resources for future technology!

Another road ahead was blocked by the distortants, and they had to take a detour.

Song Ming secretly scolded: "These damn dried corpses ......"

"Their official name is mutation, although dried corpses are appropriate."

Song Ming was surprised: "There is still a so-called official!?" ”

The expression on Caroline's face was very exciting, Song Ming didn't know how to describe it, she said: "Believe me, some people's lives are harder than cockroaches, and those bigwigs in the coalition government are alive better than the other, but their dominance is unprecedentedly low, and the government basically exists in name only." ”

The coalition government still exists, but the dominance has declined unprecedentedly, and the subtext is that the current human race is equivalent to returning to a period of division and starting to compete for power.

Song Ming asked, "What happened on Doom Day?" Do you know? ”

"As long as there are people who survive, there is nothing that does not know. Everything starts with that plan......

Caroline pursed her lips, presumably disdainful of the plan.

From Caroline's mouth, Song Ming once again learned about the terrible disasters that happened in this world, and his face was a little cloudy.

The time of this world is August 23, 2071.

It's a clean end times.

On August 23, 2069, exactly two years before today, a catastrophe erupted, and that day was known to the survivors as Doom Day.

The Earth has become uninhabitable due to heavy pollution due to industrial development, and the space migration program has been frustrated due to the inability to solve the problem of benefit distribution.

Backed by the coalition government's modest, molecular bionics expert Adams Röntgen has launched the "Recovery" program, which aims to use nanorobots to clean up the environment and restore the environment.

After the plan was executed, for unknown reasons, the nanobot "sappers" at the bottom began to get out of control, and most of the life forms in the test area were decomposed by the nano-gray tide.

On August 23, 2069, in order to curb the deterioration of the situation, the coalition government used nuclear bombs, satellite railgun bombardment, and material incendiary bombs to purify the area contaminated by nanorobots.

The natural environment has not been restored, and the rampaging nanobots have almost destroyed the entire world.

Song Ming now understands what happened to him before he kept dissolving and almost died—because he was decomposed by the nanobots in the air.

After Doom Day, in order to prevent nanobots from rampage again, self-proliferating nanobots were no longer developed, and all subsequent production was consumable disposable nanobots.

It is precisely because of this that after Doom Day, the productivity of the survivors was instantly reduced to the extreme, and the civilization was almost collapsed, and now the survivors are struggling in the ruins of this civilization, and all kinds of living materials are very scarce, especially food.

Pure natural food is a luxury that only the upper class can enjoy, and the bottom survivors can only barely survive on synthetic food.

“…… Some people didn't even feel it, they were completely decomposed from the molecular level by nanobots and disappeared from this world, and some people were invaded by nanobots and infected with brain death, and then the nanobot swarm mutated and proliferated to control his body, becoming a distorted body, which is what you call a dry corpse. A part of the population that is neither decomposed nor infected is a survivor. And a handful of people—"

Speaking of this, Caroline paused, and the expression on her face was a little complicated: "-It's like us, there has been a benign fusion with nanobots, and an evolution has occurred, that is, a watchman." Later, I don't know who developed various electronic plug-ins for us, which can perfectly play our potential, but after these electronic plug-in technologies were made public, the original body was blocked and monopolized by those stupid and fat-headed fools, and we had to pay a high price to get the electronic plug-ins. ”

At the end of the day, Caroline's face was very gloomy, and it was clear that she was not in a very good mood.

“…… There is also a different evolutionary direction of human beings, known as purifiers. ”

Song Ming was stunned: "Is there any difference?" ”

Caroline said lightly: "The Warden has great strength, physical strength, and speed, and is good at fighting, while the Purifier seems to have some kind of special fusion relationship with the nanobots, which can treat infections, although the effect is limited, but to a certain extent, it also ensures the survival of humans." ”

"The mutant that we met just now is the decomposer, it is a very terrifying mutant, the nano black mist it emits can decompose matter, and its strength, speed, and defense are extremely amazing, even if the watchman touches it, it is very difficult to defeat alone, and a person can escape as fast as he can after encountering it. But your words...... All you need is some powerful weapons, perhaps. ”

Song Ming nodded, it is true that the decomposer is very powerful, but after he turned on the [Astute Person], it is not a problem to single out the decomposer.

"The first ones are the lowest and most common variants, known as wanderers, they are the products of the mutation of ordinary people, and they will unconsciously wander in the area of death, attacking the living forms in their field of vision, and only have the desire to eat."

"A little more advanced than the Wanderers are the Predators, who were once trained ordinary people or soldiers in their lifetimes, with stronger attack power, faster speed, and some weapons, and of course more dangerous."

"Similar to the danger of predators, there is also a special mutant, called self-destructors, they are incomplete proliferators of nanobots, relatively easy to distinguish, a little fat, but very fast, if you can't destroy them before they get close, they will self-detonate, and the power is amazing."

"More dangerous than predators and self-destructors, is a deformed mutant, what we call the Devourer, the appearance is so recognizable that it is no longer recognizable in human form, like a wriggling mass of carrion, moving slowly, capable of spitting gastric juice with a range of up to three hundred meters, which can melt steel alloys, and at the same time the teeth can tear and devour most substances. When it is overly hungry, it will also order wanderers and predators to line up to devour. ”

Song Ming's face was rather ugly—the one blocking that path just now was a Devourer.

"The other is the decomposer we encountered, and on top of this, there are more dangerous mutants, and I won't repeat them - earthquakes?"

Before she finished her words, Song Ming's face suddenly turned pale, and he pointed behind Caroline and asked, "That's what you said?" ”

In the distance, hundreds of meters ahead, a huge monster suddenly came out of the corner of the street, probably seven or eight stories tall, the huge body was covered with a thick exoskeleton, and the exposed skin was extremely blood-red, like a demon in hell came to reality, and the hideous and rough appearance made people shudder from the depths of their hearts. Foot by foot, the hard road was like soft dirt to it, and its huge, thick arms fell beside its legs, smashing the wall to pieces with a single swing!

The power of terror!

Will die! If you are discovered, you will definitely die!

Almost the moment she saw that monster, Caroline bullied and pressed Song Ming into the corner, covering his mouth, not even daring to breathe! The whole body was huddled in the corner, lest the monster make a little noise.

The monster stopped and glanced at them, its huge scarlet eyes were full of hideous bloodshots, gurgling and turning, its huge pupils were filled with violent killing intent, and the invisible pressure was unbearable!

The monster hesitated for a moment, staring at it for a moment, and after a moment, as if something had caught its attention, it turned around and slowly left.

"Whew, Whew, Whew......"

Caroline gasped sharply, her clothes wet from a cold sweat.

Originally, Song Ming thought that what had happened before was crazy enough, but he didn't expect that in less than a day, he would encounter so many terrifying monsters!

The world is really crazy!

The tremor of the earth had long since disappeared, but they still did not dare to act rashly, and waited for ten more minutes to ensure that they were completely safe before they got back to their feet.

Both are now drenched in sweat.

Caroline's expression was very ugly: "Titans, the defense is extremely perverted, according to EPK's investigation, there are only two Titans at most in a large city, and we actually met them so closely...... But it doesn't make sense, the Titan's vision is very wide, and its senses are extremely keen, and we can't escape its detection at all when we are close to it, how did it go......

Song Ming's mind flashed the mysterious figure, but he didn't speak, the two of them sped up, and soon found an off-road vehicle that looked intact, and after replacing it with the general energy package that had been removed before, the two of them drove all the way.

Caroline, who was driving, said nervously: "There is another one that is as dangerous as the Titans, but it is more aggressive, it is a mutant with the same huge size, they are called destroyers, they are advanced individuals after the mutation of the crusher has deepened, and they have obtained a stronger exoskeleton, and some destroyers will choose to fuse with machinery to obtain more powerful strength when they recover their size, making up for the shortcomings of slow speed, and at the same time the defense has been strengthened to a certain extent, and the body is more than ten meters high." There are up to three destroyers in a city discovered so far, and there is a clear sense of territory. ”

"The Destroyer and the Titan, which are basically the top combat power of the distorted variants, but on top of this, there is also the existence of the apex, and the leader who commands them, we call them the tyrants, which are the advanced individuals of the deep mutation of the destroyers, for the tyrants, there is no clear information now, so far, there has only been one observation record, or in a war against mutants more than a year ago, one destroyer advanced to become a tyrant in battle, and at the same time the other devourer advanced to become a destroyer, and then, The army of tens of thousands of people was completely wiped out, and until now the humans have not approached that city again, so it is not known whether the Titans can advance to become tyrants. ”

"Actually, it's useless to talk to you about this, the possibility of encountering them in the future is basically zero," Caroline said pretending to be relaxed, "In the past two years, EPK has been cleaning up the surrounding distortions, and also using rewards such as materials or contributions to attract ordinary people to hunt and kill distortions, although it is impossible to completely remove them, but now the situation has basically stabilized, and the large variant communities are confined to the original city, and they are basically safe outside the city, Some of the survivors would occasionally go out into the small cities to try and find some food, and the mortality rate was much lower than before. ”

"What about the survivors?" Song Ming asked, "How many survivors are there now?" ”

"Survivors......" Caroline muttered to herself, "There are still more than a million people in the Yanhuang Shelter who are safe and sound, and there are still more than 10 million people in Hope City, although the situation in Xihe Shelter is complicated now, but it is also a settlement, and the Wangshu Shelter should be about the same, plus the survivors of the scattered shelters and clean lands around the world, it is optimistically estimated that there are about a billion human beings left." ”

Before the Day of Destruction, there were 12 billion people on Earth, but now it is optimistically estimated that there are only 1 billion left...... These two huge disparities made Song Ming dizzy.

Caroline looked at Song Ming: "What?" Can't withstand this blow? Rest assured, for a creature like a human being, which is keen to pass on its ancestry, it will be almost recovered in 180 years without restrictions. Don't you think you're purer than that? ”

Song Ming was speechless!