Chapter 43: Illusion

After figuring out the purpose of Manuka and his party, a stone in Li Mengyan's heart also fell completely, because she had only guessed before and barely determined Ralph's location, but with the life detection device in Manuka's hand, this proves that Ralph is indeed in the security center, and Captain McCas was imprisoned, and Manuka's meaning is also very clear, as long as she can help rescue her father, it is completely okay to provide fire cover for Li Mengyan.

When Li Mengyan and Manuka rushed to the maintenance tunnel, Du Jin had already followed the maintenance to a small room full of maintenance screens, and he was pleasantly surprised to find that the maintenance system here could temporarily take over all the maintenance probes in the nearby pipeline, without hesitation, he immediately controlled a "retro" mechanical center console next to the screen, originally Du Jin was also worried about his own permissions, but the identity of the owner of the body he "snatched" was indeed unusual, even if it was separated from the maintenance end of the security system, Du Jin will still be able to visit on a temporary basis.

Du Jin only checked whether there was a corpse variant in the passage, although the security center could detect signs of life activity, but because of the angle of the maintenance probe, he could not confirm the situation in the security center, and in the process of confirmation, Du Jin also really realized the huge size of this space ship, with a length of at least five kilometers and nearly 10,000 pipes, which are responsible for meeting the life supply of 8,000 crew members, this scale makes Du Jin more and more aware of this world, The horror of the Interstellar Federation at the level of civilization.

According to the division of Du Jin's current scientists, there are many stages and levels of civilization in the universe:

The first layer, Level 0 civilization

Level 1 Civilization: The home planet is born and begins to give birth to life. The forms of life are inherently diverse, from the lowest living plants, inorganic matter, organic matter, including single-celled organisms, fungi, and microorganisms, all of which are unconscious, only rely on instinctive activities, and are still far from a preliminary understanding of the world. Therefore, this can only be regarded as the most basic and lowest-level civilization, or even not a civilization at all, and can only be regarded as the existence form of some life in the early days of the birth of the mother planet.

Level 2 Civilization : After a long evolutionary path and favorable natural evolution, these life forms begin to converge and form an organizational structure, from simple to complex, and finally reach the next stage, beginning to have consciousness, but still no self-awareness, the intellect is still not opened, the brain has been formed, able to make some of the most basic, simplest, still instinctive judgments. There is still a long way to go before we get to know the world first. I can't interact with nature yet, let alone use nature for more advanced activities, but I already have the ability to imitate it simply, and I already have the most basic feelings.

The second layer is the primary civilization

Level 3 Civilization : After countless years of evolutionary selection and correct natural evolution, the best of the lower beings on the home planet has finally come out and reached a new stage, beginning to have self-awareness, the intellect has been opened, the brain has begun to develop, and the most basic and simple thoughts can be carried out, such as life and death, competition and cooperation, survival and matter, and the initial understanding of the world. I have begun to interact with nature and have begun to use it for more advanced activities.

Level 4 civilization: primitive people, primitive tribes, primitive societies after years of exploration and development, finally reached this stage, this stage, has formed a society, formed a country, can be regarded as a real step into the civilization period.

Level 5 Civilization: The landmark achievement of entering this stage is the rapid development of science, and the first qualitative breakthrough in science and technology, the key to which is the discovery and application of the microscopic world.

Level 6 civilization: With the continuous and rapid development of society, continuous breakthroughs and increases in various fields, and the continuous emergence of various high-tech products, civilization has truly reached this stage of diversification, diversification, three-dimensionalization, and the world is gradually connected into a global era. The footsteps of civilization have traveled almost to every corner of the home planet. Invented rockets have broken through the atmosphere, and artificial satellites have spread to all corners of the Earth. The space station has been set up, has landed on the closest planet to the home star, and has begun to explore the planet farther away from the home star. With the development of aerospace, civilization has begun to explore outer space, and explorers have set off to the planet closest to the earth, but this stage of civilization is still limited to the initial exploration of the planets in the star system. Civilization's understanding of the world, the universe, and time and space has once again reached a higher level.

Level 7 civilization: The sign of entering this stage of civilization is that the world has been truly unified, that is, the civilization has achieved unification, the development of space outside the home star and the exploration of the universe, civilization has been able to easily break through the atmosphere to the universe thousands of kilometers away from the home star to go around, after landing on the nearest planet to the home planet, began to establish an ecological environment suitable for the survival of civilization on the planet closest to the home planet, and also landed on the planet farther away from the home planet. The unification within the civilization has promoted the rapid development of the aerospace industry, and the civilization has begun to explore outer space on a large scale, and the explorers have landed on the planets closest to the earth.

And Du Jin knows very well that the Blue Star where he is is only a sixth-level civilization, because of the turmoil and competition between countries, the real unity of civilization seems a little out of reach, and it will take at least one or even several centuries of precipitation to reach the level of seventh-level civilization, and if there is an irreconcilable dispute between the countries of Blue Star, maybe a war will make Blue Star retreat to the Middle Ages or even the Stone Age.

According to the logical deduction of this incomparably huge spaceship, he can be sure that the interstellar federation of this world can not only colonize in this galaxy, but also have a foothold in other galaxies, which completely throws Du Jin's world to the end, if there is a war between these two worlds before, even if Du Jin still favors his own country and civilization, but the fact must be an overwhelming slaughter on the one hand, after all, a space-age missile may blow up a big hole in the blue star, and the range of the blue star's weapon may not be close to the opponent's side, This gap is no longer considered a war.

"Even with such a civilization, can't it stop the erosion of the blood seal?"

Whether the interstellar federation has appeared in the blood moon that Du Jin saw in his fantasy before, he has no way to confirm, but judging from the situation on this ship, even the armor cannot resist the killing of those corpse mutants, and whether it is possible for the blood seal to create a larger and more terrifying mutant, Du Jin does not dare to imagine it, it is more and more confirmed that the original owner who made the blood mark has either been destroyed by playing with fire and self-immolation, or it is a powerful existence beyond cognition, this large-scale biological genetic weapon is simply a nightmare of the universe.

Du Jin suddenly came back to his senses, he seemed to feel the depression and despair in his heart swelling more and more, as if he was being pulled by something, which made him a little alert.

"Is this the effect of the blood seal? No, I have to find Ralph as soon as possible to ask for the solution of the blood seal, and then get out of here as soon as possible, otherwise I myself may become a monster under its influence, not to mention that I will have to find Li Mengyan at that time, and I will not have time to waste any more time. ”

He bit the tip of his tongue to dispel the negative emotions in his heart, and after confirming the direction to the security center, Du Jin immediately rushed there, and less than a few hundred meters away from him, Ralph had already injected the crimson liquid into McCas's body, and then Ralph threw away the syringe that had been emptied in his hand, looked at the "prey" in front of him, and said with a smile in an almost crazy voice:

"Hehe, the power of the Holy Seal is not something that you mortals can resist, maybe you can resist the grace of God's words, but Mercas, your weak human shell has already doomed your fate, since you are not willing to confess the damned traitor and the woman who revealed the secret of the Holy Seal until you die, then wait for God's punishment! When you turn into those corpse-like monsters and face your so-called relatives and comrades, I hope you will still be as calm as you are at this time. ”

"You..... You devil! ”

McCasse only felt that his vision began to slowly take over the red, and the right arm that was injected into the dark yellow liquid for unknown purposes was as painful as being gnawed by a wild wolf, and he could feel that his tied hands grew a lot of things that did not belong to him, and the despair and desire to kill in his heart also became more and more intense, all of which made him extremely painful, especially the hint in Ralph's words, McCasse seemed to really feel that he was mutating into that terrible monster.

And if someone observes next to McCas, they will find that his right arm is constantly expanding, as if something terrible is going to drill out of it, and the fingers of McCas's right hand have become bloody and blurred, and the sharp bone spurs directly pierce the skin and flesh of his hand, and begin to slowly lengthen, and after a while, the chair used to bind him is already full of blood.

And McCas's eyes began to become cloudy, at this time he was in a hallucination, Ralph and the previous room were gone, leaving him in a barren world full of flesh and blood, he looked up with difficulty, and found that in front of him was the red blood-marked statue that he had mined, and the strange lines on it surged with blood-red light, and the top of it McCasse could no longer be seen.

"Go ahead! One with your true self! ”

"Return to the bosom of the Holy Seal!"

Familiar voices rang in his ears, and McCas saw his wife, who had been dead for more than ten years, and his son, who he knew well, but they were also covered in blood, as if they had crawled out of hell, and the constant whispers in his ears came from their quivering lips.