Chapter 44: The Root of the Calamity
Latecomer, this is probably me, the director of the Provincial Plant Observatory of the Southeast Province of the Red Bay Republic, the dean of the Provincial Donggang Wild Plant Research Institute, and the first-class professor of the Republic.
"Tsk, the bureaucratic atmosphere that came to your face is too different from the director who committed suicide. And aren't you just croaking, how can the name be translated?"
"Shhhh Lying on the back of the deer, Safu tugged at the fluff on Lin Jinglu's body, "Shuer's translation of text needs to be focused." ”
"It's so distressing, isn't it, eh, don't pluck my hair, you're about to pluck me bald. Lin Jing smiled and dodged Safu's fingers, "Okay, okay, don't make trouble." ”
"Last time, that inexplicable name should be an ancient language, and I can't transliterate it, but this one can. At work, Shuer stopped laughing and translated very attentively, "Although I don't know what a republic is, the position of this dean should not be low, it seems that he has estimated that he is going to die, so he left this record, well, it is similar to that director." ”
It has been nine years since the insect xx of the safflower was successfully embedded, and in the past nine years, we have successfully transformed the barren land of the Donggang Peninsula into the current green island, and promoted the transformed safflower to every corner of the world, winning endless glory for the Republic.
The transformed safflower can be spread through plant pheromones (muttering: What is this?), affecting all plants in the surrounding area, greatly enhancing their environmental adaptability and growth rate, so that other plants can grow quickly in a large area in a very harsh environment.
In other words, as long as a safflower plant is planted, the vegetation coverage area will change in days, but unfortunately, once the safflower dies, the surrounding plants will soon return to their original characteristics, so that if you want to restore vegetation, you need to plant safflower in large quantities and in a large area. But even so, this transformation is also of epoch-making significance, and you may never understand how important this success is to our world, and only it can save the world's plant scarcity.
At least, that's what the whole world thought at first, but unfortunately everyone was wrong.
The hundreds of thousands of saffron scientists who were born around the world were all wrong, and no one could have imagined that the environmental savior we had high hopes for was actually brewing a conspiracy to destroy the world.
"Eh, why do I think he's trying to shirk responsibility?" Moria's expression grimaced again, "As if she's been saying that it's not me that's wrong, it's the world." ”
"He is shirking responsibility, and the responsibility of destroying the world is not something that everyone can bear. Shul pursed his lips and continued reading.
The safflower itself has an extremely weak intelligence, at the same level as most plants, and there is no obvious change after the success of the experiment, so that everyone ignores the fact that it can affect not only the surrounding plants, but also the plants.
They can form a web of thinking together with the surrounding plants, just like the threads of xx (what is this?), and distribute the thinking work evenly among each plant, and the more plants around, the stronger their thinking ability and higher their intelligence.
Not only that, but they can also be related to each other, and they can form another network for nodes to think at a higher level. Hundreds of millions of saffron flowers around the world are connected, and their intelligence has long surpassed us and become the highest creatures on the planet.
"Hey, it's a bit informative. Shuer frowned, "It seems that not all plants have problems, only this thing called saffron has problems." ”
"Shul, Shul. Safu tugged at the corner of Shuer's coat and said weakly, "This name makes me have a not-so-good association, the pot of flowers in it just now...... It seems to be red. ”
"Hehe, hehe, I know. Glancing at the closed chamber, Shuergan chuckled and shook his head, "I'll talk about that later." ”
They are allowed to be cultivated and spread by human beings, and cooperate with human beings to restore the ecology of the planet, if they can continue like this, it can be regarded as a win-win outcome.
However, no one knows what went wrong, no one knows. All the saffron flowers are extremely hostile to us, they have been planning a counterattack against humanity from beginning to end, and they have always wanted to destroy humanity.
However, they have been forbearing, disguising themselves as incompetent to confuse humans, but in fact, they have used these years to do the same work as us, influencing all kinds of plants around them, turning them into terrifying parasitic killers.
In the past nine years, they have spread all over the world, and the affected plants have also spread all over the world, and they have been acting quietly, all without warning, and human beings have never known that in fact, they have long been parasitized by those terrible killers, and everyone is no exception.
"Oh, I see, everyone has already been parasitized. The three of them looked at each other thoughtfully.
"It seems that everything happened earlier than expected, for them, and for us. Shuer bowed his head slowly, "I'm afraid that as soon as we entered, we were already in the parasitic trap." ”
"I didn't notice it at all, so it's no wonder that these frogmen were caught off guard. Moria complained with a bitter face, "I'm a plant, I'm on their side, why should even I attack, it's too immoral." ”
"Hey, this is apostasy?
"Hurry up, translate quickly, what's going on in the back, let it go away or something. "Curiosity overcame everything, including Lin Jing's shame.
Humans have been blinded by lotus leaves, seeing only the immediate benefits, ignoring the danger from the water (muttering: what is this metaphor? well, the metaphor of the frog), and by the time we find the problem, it is too late, we have lost the ability to stop them, and we can't even slow down the speed of extinction.
The first outbreak is a mass suicide wave, with tens of thousands of people choosing to end their lives every day. Sociologists attribute the problem to excessive work pressure, medical scholars attribute the problem to mental fragility caused by modern lifestyles, and astronomers attribute the problem to the influence of tidal forces.
By the time it was discovered, a quarter of the world's population had been lost, and the rest of the population had finally come to their senses and planned to remove saffron on a large scale. Unfortunately, this is completely delusional, because the wave of suicides is only the beginning of a catastrophe.
The living never knew why the victims chose to commit suicide, but they did, at least before they died, because the victims were already immersed in hallucinations.
They affect the five senses of human beings, what you see, what you hear, what you smell, what you touch, everything that the parasite wants you to perceive. Every victim has actually experienced complete despair and died in despair, but such experiences are illusory, and only he knows about it.
"This is really ......" Although Macageren's performance before made everyone mentally prepared, it still felt creepy at this time.
"It's still hard to imagine what it's like to live in an illusion all day long. Saf's body trembled a little, she didn't dare to say what she thought, but she kept thinking in her heart, what if it was herself? If she saw Shul and Moria's tragic deaths in front of her, would she really be able to survive? The answer was probably not optimistic.
"Tsk, I'm afraid that's not the scariest thing. Shuer smacked his tongue and said, "If nothing else, the frogman is dead, which is really a terrible means." ”
"Aren't they all dead? ”
"Well, I'm kind of into the play. "I didn't explain what I had in mind to say this, because the rest of the content has already been explained.
At that time, no one thought that what plants could do was not only induce human suicide, or some people had already thought of it, but did not dare to say it, after all, it was a desperate fact.
The wave of suicides was followed by upheaval and killing all over the world, where everyone was killing and everyone was being killed.
You were attacked by the people around you, you had to dodge, you had to fight back, however, was someone really attacking you?
Everyone you trust can attack you without warning, even if you don't do anything, but you never know what you did in his eyes. In order to protect yourself, you have no choice but to hide alone and kill everyone who appears around you, only in this way can you live a little longer, although only a little.
Billions of people are caught in a terrible cannibalism, society is completely broken, trust is gone, all cities are filled with gunsmoke and death, and everyone has blood on their hands.
"Sure enough, the frogmen are dead, and any race is dead. Lin Jing, who was happy by nature, actually sighed very sadly, "The cornerstone has been broken and there is no help." ”
"Huh. Xiu Ermu smiled, his face was a little ugly, he knew better than anyone the wonder of trusting this kind of thing, it can make life or death.
"Smack", a hand suddenly shook Shuer's hand, and it could be guessed by the strength of the grip that it was Saf's hand.
The two hands were intertwined with ten fingers, the female swordsman bit her lip and didn't say anything, just holding her hands like this, and the heat from the palm of her hand made the corners of Xiu'er's tense mouth gradually show a smile.
"I'm very grateful for your comfort, and I also think it feels good, it's very soft, but Sasa, you drag me like this, I can't turn the page." ”
"Bullying and bullying. "Standard Shure-style flirting that makes the shy girl smoke on her head and hot on her face, and then ......
"Knock knock". Sometimes the sound of a fist hitting the back sounds similar to the sound of a hammer tearing down a wall, but of course, this must not happen too often, otherwise it will kill people.
"Poof, I'm vomiting blood. ”