Su didn't seem to be surprised by the old man's words at all, and while observing the layout and furnishings of the real yàn room, he said nonchalantly: "If I'm not mistaken, you're the one who passed guò...... The wolf knows us, right? ”

The old man straightened up, looked back at Su with some surprise, and said, "Stranger, it seems that you are much more sensitive than I thought, and have a profound understanding of biochemical technology. Yes, I only found out about your arrival through the communication between Guò and the children. I know it's not efficient to put these kids like this, but there's no way around it. After all, as you can see, the resources here are really very limited, and they can only create these most elementary children. ”

Sue's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she felt very uncomfortable with the title of 'children' when she remembered the fierce wolves who were full of unnatural feelings all over her body. However, the current Su is more or less well-informed, and knows that most of the scientists standing at the top of the world are a combination of geniuses and madmen. In layman's terms, most great scientists have quirks. On this point, Sue has been amply demonstrated in Helen. The old man didn't look like a genius like Helen, and the strange Cheng dù was a little lighter. Or the other way around.

The old man stretched out his right hand to Sue and said, "I'm Cornier. Rand, as you can see, is the head of this village and the host of this real room. Welcome to the Ice Throne! ”

Su looked at the old man's hand, reached out to hold it, and said, "Su." ”

"Sue? Very strange name. Anyway, I want to thank you for the trust you have placed in an old man. Cornell raised his right hand, and then, in front of Sue, the right hand, which was originally thin and scorched, covered with old age spots, suddenly swelled, and the five fingers and fingers opened their suckers, and in the center of the suckers was a large mouth full of several layers of sharp teeth! The tips of the large number of sharp teeth can be seen to be dark brown in color, which is obviously highly toxic.

"It's something that an old man uses to protect himself." Cornell's terrifying right hand gradually returned to normal.

"Yes, it's a means of self-preservation." Su smiled in agreement and continued, "It was a very wise and fortunate decision for you to use him only for self-preservation. ”

The smile on Cornier's face immediately stiffened, but it quickly returned to normal. He walked to the side of the room and pressed a row of shapes, and the walls suddenly lit up, turning into a display screen divided into a dozen areas, which showed all the corners of the village that had evolved from a military base. However, Cornier didn't find what he was looking for on the monitor, he shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, "Sue, it seems that your companion is also an excellent master of concealment. Now can we invite her over and talk about it? ”

A few minutes later, Sue and Medirli were sitting side by side in a comfortable couch, looking at Cornell across from them. It's a private retreat from Corneil, it's not big, but it's neat and welcoming, and it has good wine and cream biscuits. In this day and age, it can be called luxury and enjoyment. The young man who had been dismantled by Sue, Rupee, temporarily took on the role of waiter, brought black tea with milk and sugar, and then withdrew, carefully closing the door.

Sue and Medilli are both incredibly smart people, and Cornell is clearly not stupid. When smart people are together, the conversation can be very difficult or very convenient. Now the situation between the three of them is obviously the latter, so after a while, the two sides have already exchanged the basic situation.

"So, you're here for the Ice Throne Project. Being able to climb over snow-capped mountains in a radiant cloud is truly an amazing strength! Cornier exclaimed as he tossed a cookie into his mouth. After chewing hard, he asked a question that Sue and Medirli couldn't answer: "So what did the two of you want to get by coming to this isolated world?" ”

yes, what do you want?

Sue and Medilli have made the arduous trek to be here for only two reasons. One was Pandora's vague guidance, and the other was the call to the dark that both had felt. Something seems to be here, calling for their arrival.

That's all. Neither Sue nor Medirri knew anything about what to look for in the Ice Throne.

The silence in the lounge was both a surprise and a joy for Cornell. But he carefully hid his joy for fear of being discovered by the person opposite. He had discovered that these two strangely young and handsome men had a composure and solemnity that was not commensurate with their appearances. And the fact that he was able to climb over the snow-capped mountains covered by radiation clouds reminded Cornier all the time that the two young men in front of him were definitely not objects that could be provoked lightly.

Cornier took a sip of black tea to moisten his throat, and then said, "The Ice Throne is actually a project, a top-secret project. At the heart of the whole project is a miraculous biological organ......"

The Ice Throne is one of five projects classified as top secret by the Federation in the old days, with billions of research grants each year and more than a thousand research teams working on it. Based on dozens of times the number of guards and surrounding service personnel, and with the support of a large amount of funds, a small city was quickly built on the site of the Ice Throne project, and the scale is still expanding. On the eve of the war, it was already a city of 50,000 people.

The project leader was Dr. Rochester, and Cornell was Dr. Cornier's youngest assistant at the time. Since Rochester is also in charge of the other two projects, and devotes most of his energy to the other projects, he does not appear in the Ice Throne for more than a month in a year, so in fact Cornier is the real person in charge of the Ice Throne. Every time Rochester arrives, it's just a matter of checking in on the progress of the project and pointing out areas for improvement.

Ten years before the outbreak of the war, the Ice Throne Project had already begun. But ten years of research have made little progress, not to mention the ultimate goal of the project, which is to restore the original life form in its entirety through a mysterious organ, and even figuring out the most basic function of that organ is far away. After a full decade of research, they couldn't even complete the genetic sequence of the organs.

The genes of the occult organs are dense and varied, consisting of as many as a thousand strands of genes wound together, and their complexity is orders of magnitude greater than that of any known organism. Moreover, the gene chain is a combination of codes that are similar to the code, and it is impossible to parse the individual gene fragments without cracking the code first. However, simulation calculations have found that at the level of human computing at that time, the time required to crack this code was calculated in trillions of years.

But there is always no shortage of geniuses among human beings. Since the quantitative method of analysis does not work, then the qualitative method should be carried out. After abstract reasoning, exhaustive methods, and even direct injection of organ cells into the human body to observe the reaction, a gene fragment was finally successfully restored. Looking back at the miraculous process that led to this genetic fragment, it is more of a miracle than an achievement.

After successfully reconstructing the genetic fragments, Dr. Rochester hurried in and took the genetic sample. A month later, the Doctor held a press conference announcing the existence of the first spell-like ability, and the first ability in human history, 'Fire'.

This is the beginning of the era of rapid human evolution marked by ability.

The day after Dr. Rochester made his abilities public, war broke out without warning, and the old era came to an end under the rising mushroom cloud.

"Looks like this is the organ we're looking for. It's... What does it look like and which part of the organ is it? Sue said.

Cornier smiled bitterly, spread his hands, and said, "I have to admit that although I have studied it for ten years, I still don't know anything about its function and function, and it does not belong to any known species. And its origin is the highest level of secrecy, and I have no permission to know this. However, there was an office of Dr. Rochester in the research base at the time, and perhaps you could find something there. After all these years, I don't know what is left there. ”

Medirli looked at Cornier and said, "Your life is long. ”

Cornier smiled and said, "Indeed. I'm approaching one hundred and thirty this year. You see, since I can equip myself with a few self-preservation gadgets, it's not too difficult to prolong my life. What's more, in the era of possession, as long as there are no accidents, those who are capable can live longer than in the past. Unfortunately, if I lived in the old days, I don't know how many big people would come and beg me to operate on them - according to the common people's thinking, to transform them into monsters with human form. In fact, as long as they can live a few more decades and not lose the joy of being human, I don't think they will be bothered by the question of whether they are still human in the sense of their biological structure. ”

Even in the age of the able, increasing lifespan is still a fatal temptation. But in turbulent times, there are very few people who can live without accidents.

"What is the situation of the Ice Throne now? Why don't you choose to live here instead of a research base? The research base can't even resist a nuclear explosion, right? Sue asked two key questions.

"The research base located underground can withstand the direct bombardment of 10 million tons of nuclear bombs, not to mention that in the war, we were not directly hit by nuclear bombs here. It was only the nuclear explosion that destroyed all the roads leading to the outside world, and the radiation blocked the mountains and the sea, and the area was sealed. For several months after the end of the nuclear war, the project continued as normal. I sent three teams to try to get in touch with the outside world and figure out what was going on. But none of the people who sent out came back. At this time, the crisis of the base began to appear, there was not much water, and the stored food was only enough to last for a month. Fortunately, all but a few of the researchers were unaware of the situation and continued to work. ”

"What about energy?" Medirli asked.

"There are two underground nuclear power plants that provide energy to the entire base. Because the real yàn often consumes a lot of electricity, the stored fuel rods are enough to provide electricity for five hundred years. Cornell explained.

"Then why are you staying here? This isn't a base capable of a plan like the Ice Throne. Sue had a rare sense of humor, but found that the joke was really cold.

Cornier sighed deeply, the wrinkles on his face seemed to deepen, and he said slowly, "The crisis happened unconsciously. In the beginning, only a few researchers suddenly fell ill. Their common signs are high fever and weakness. I didn't really care at the time, because the best doctors in the federation were located in the base at the time, and many of the scientists in the graduate program were medical experts themselves. But a few days passed, and the sick people did not get any better, and more than a dozen people fell. All patients have the same symptoms, but the doctors are helpless and can't even find the cause of the disease! In this way, more and more people fell ill, and by the third week, a third of the total number of sick people at the base had been sick. Isolation, disinfection, independent ventilation, every imaginable measure has been used. However, there was still no way to control the spread of the plague, and more and more people fell, but the cause of the disease was still not found. Until one day, a computer inadvertently records an incredible video of an automated microscope that examines blood samples! ”

Cornier's face was full of shock and horror, and it could be seen that his mind was completely immersed in terrifying memories: "It was originally the most ordinary blood cells, but one of them suddenly split into dozens of alien cells, and then these brand-new cells moved at a hundred times the speed of ordinary biological cells, found the surrounding normal blood cells, and began to devour!" Incredibly, it took less than a minute for them to devour normal cells dozens of times their size! After devouring their prey, they change their appearance and make themselves indistinguishable from normal blood cells. Unless you use the most advanced genetic detectors, there is no way to notice that they have become a different kind of cell. And such a process is repeated every hour or two. In other words, the researchers who fell ill a few days ago are already full of xenogeneous cells in their bodies, and they ...... Has become another creature! ”

A word suddenly came to Sue's heart: "Intruder!?" An imperceptible pale passed over his face.

"The first human response to an unknown threat should be to destroy it immediately." Medirri commented lightly.

Cornier didn't notice Sue's abnormality, he nodded in agreement with Medierri, and said, "Yes." At that time, my decision was to inject poison gas into the quarantine area through the guò ventilation system. Those who have fallen ill have actually become another creature, and their lethargy and weakness are all pretended to show us. However, just as the staff who did not fall ill began to carry out my orders, those ...... Somehow sensing the threat, the guys suddenly jumped up and rushed out of the quarantine zone! ”

The research base turned into hell in an instant, and the original patients suddenly possessed incredible speed and beastly power, and they easily tore apart the few guards and began to sweep through the entire underground base.

Cornell escaped along the secret passageway, but luckily the human-turned-alien creatures did not chase him out of the base. For some reason, the range of activities of alien creatures has never left the range of a kilometer of the research base.

In addition to the research and staff in the underground bases, the above-ground cities are home to tens of thousands of soldiers, service personnel, and the families of the staff. Half of them died in the radiation and cold that came with the war, and the remaining half stubbornly survived. Cornier was not the only one who escaped from the research base, so the survivors on the ground were aware of the upheaval at the underground base and began to flee.

Decades pass quickly.

The original survivors also entered a process of rapid mutation and evolution, gradually adapting to the new environment. They established settlements and found new crops to eat. Small-scale water treatment technologies are also being developed, given its proximity to mountainous areas and the abundance of groundwater sources with only slight radiation. The problem of food and water was solved, and the population gradually developed.

And those alien creatures who occupy the underground research base have also begun to show their remarkable wisdom. They took out medicines and other supplies stored in the base and exchanged food with people in nearby settlements. Later, the aliens even started selling electricity! In any case, the two nuclear power plants generate far more electricity than the bases normally need.

We have to admit that humans are extremely adaptable creatures. When truly neighbored by the intelligent race, they did not assert their position of domination of all things. A group of clever and bold men gained the trust of the alien creatures, made a fortune by trading with the alien creatures in the research base, and then monopolized the trade, and quickly built up a powerful army with the accumulated wealth. These men have become the most powerful forces in the region, and claim to be the agents of the aliens on the ground.

These people, calling themselves Grey Eagles.

After wandering for a year, but unable to find a way out of the country, Cornier took possession of the abandoned military radar station, hid his identity, and continued his research. He was unwilling and afraid to approach the research base, so he lived here forever.

By the time the long and heavy narrative ended, it was already dawn.

"If you want to get that organ, you have to find the Master." In uttering the word juggernaut, Cornier clearly struggled and hesitated.

"Juggernaut?" Sue felt the word make him uncomfortable.

Cornier buried his face deep in his hands and said in a trembling voice, "Yes, Juggernaut. In order to study the role of an organ, Rochester used the human body as a container to carry that organ. The code name for this container is Juggernaut. If you want to get the organs, then you have to find the Master and kill it. Promise me, young man, find the master, kill it, and give it relief! After all, it'...... It used to be mine... Son! ”