Parallel worlds.

Arizona.

Dinner at 8 o'clock, Chinese restaurant.

"Drink more, and you'll be back home next week, and you won't have to intern in a psychiatric hospital anymore and be angry with that old man." The friend raised a glass to Li Qing in celebration.

"Gross! I went to the toilet. ”

A few friends were drinking and singing, their faces red-faced.

Suddenly, Li Qing's mobile phone rang.

He put down his glass and received a phone call, it was a mental patient who had been missing for two months: "I want to explain something about the future, I have a world to hand over to you before I die." ”

Li Qing: "......"

The person on the other side of the phone is very familiar with himself, he is a mental patient he treated before, and he used to claim to be the first zombie in the modern world, and now he is sitting on a world? It seems to be getting worse.

"How did you give this patient a personal phone, haven't you already resigned, and are you still going to see him?" The friend asked curiously.

Li Qing was a little helpless, "I also funded it in private, after all, they are all Chinese, he is quite pitiful, helpless, I have to see it tomorrow, and I can rest assured when I return to China." ”

Early the next morning.

Li Qing finished the final handover and drove to a small house on the outskirts of Phoenix.

The patient's name is Ning Guochang, an overseas student, who is often bullied and blackmailed by other people in the school.

A year ago, in China, his parents, who were working hard to provide for his education, died in an accident, and he was silent and mentally unstable under various blows.

Ning Guochang received psychiatric treatment for a period of time and did not get better, but became more and more serious, and gradually began to have nightmares, saying that he saw himself in another time and space, and there was a zombie crisis, and he became a zombie.

He describes a very ordinary zombie story.

Resident Evil, a remake of Raccoon City.

The end of the world was the first to erupt in this free country that is very much in line with the source of various movies and novels.

In order to save a girl who was bitten and became a zombie, he continued to eat people and gradually returned to his former sanity, and became a twenty-eight big-eyed zombie controlled by the spirit, and became a zombie monarch in the Phoenix area, frantically encircling and suppressing the gathering place of survivors.

I also continue to counsel and treat him, and I have always been a listener.

One day, Ning Guochang suddenly ran away and couldn't find anyone anymore.

The address he sent was not far away.

Half an hour later, after entering the door, Li Qing felt weird.

The entire bedroom was transformed by Ning Guochang into a sterile workshop like a pharmaceutical.

Through a layer of large glass, Li Qing saw Ning Guochang, who was sitting opposite and self-isolating, as if visiting a prison.

This honest and honest young man is skinny, wearing a pair of large sunglasses, and his exposed skin is covered with fine cracks like white paint, and his gestures convey an aura of fear.

And behind him was a huge shelf, mineral water, canned food, all kinds of food, densely piled up in the bedroom.

"How long have you been self-isolating and locking yourself here?"

After a while, Li Qing suppressed the strangeness in his heart and couldn't help but say, "Do you think you're a zombie?" Afraid of infecting people? ”

"I know you don't believe it, but you believe it when you see this."

He stretched out the back of his hand, and a strange diamond-shaped gem encircled through his skin, wrapping around the flesh and blood, and squirming on his hand.

"This is my zombie crystal nucleus."

He said very calmly through the window opposite: "I ran away because of this, I don't want to be tested by you, it is said that the zombie virus in the other world is also an outbreak in the laboratory of the next state." ”

Li Qing stared silently for a few seconds.

Terminally ill, I thought there was a raccoon market in reality.

But what is the crystal nucleus that wriggles on this skin?

Magic?

Li Qing immediately showed a gentle smile and said: "I have always believed in you, I am right, my mentor is very cheating, I also think that he is in a mental hospital, taking patients to secretly conduct various experiments, and if you continue to treat in it, you may really use you for experiments!" ”

Li Qing hacked a capitalist mentor with his hand.

This is an empathy operation in psychology, which makes the patient feel that you are in the same camp as him, let go of vigilance, and feel that everyone is his own person.

Ning Guochang said: "The zombie lord in the dream, the moment he looks at it, he can control large zombies, animals, beasts, mutated humans, and has the power of the mind, and can lift a ton of cars. ”

"My current level of superpowers here is very low, I have experienced some time-traveling mutations, and I have to stare for more than three seconds to give control bacteria, and give intelligence, and the telekinesis can only lift a small cotton flower."

Li Qing took the opportunity to say: "This span is too big, right?" Originally controlled humans, large animals, but now weak enough to control only some bacteria? ”

Ning Guochang pointed to a piece of fine black mud on the table wriggling, "This is the bacterial army I currently control, it has not reached the nanometer level, but the micron level has definitely reached it, there are 0.0023 grams." ”

These wriggling black mud are magnet sand, right?

Li Qing has seen too many mentally ill people with heavy imagination, and he regards himself as the protagonist of the novel, unable to distinguish between reality and illusory stories.

"Look at this again, my mental motivation."

He really took out the cotton the size of an ant and controlled it to fly in the air, but he looked very struggling.

Li Qing was silent for a moment.

He quickly came back to his senses and said, "In other words, you are now a zombie lord, and the sterile workshop is to prevent your zombie virus from spreading outside?" ”

"Nope."

Ning Guochang shook his head: "Doctor Li, you think too much, I'm not preventing the zombie virus, we high-level zombies don't have the ability to be infectious, they are already another new transcendent species, I have also done my own experiments, and it is not infectious." ”

Li Qing immediately made a relaxed look, and said, "Then your workshop is ......?"

Ning Guochang suddenly shuddered: "I do this sterile workshop to prevent my eyes, it can control bacteria, and see very clearly, as clear as a microscope, you can adjust it up and down at any time." ”

Suddenly, his mind began to become unstable, and he showed a look of pain.

Like most mentally ill people, Ning Guochang suddenly exploded with emotion.

"Do you know what this microscopic ability feels like?"

"You normal people's world is like watching a pixel movie, my eyes are full of 4K ultra-high definition quality, I can clearly see the mites on your face climbing back and forth!!"

"The wall behind you is very smooth in your eyes, and in my eyes, it is a dense wall of phobic insects, mold, worms, dust lice, mites, forming a disgusting empire of billions."

Li Qing has a long mouth.

I feel itchy on my face inexplicably.

There are disgusting mites crawling in dense clusters.

But fortunately, those who study medicine are not afraid of this, and there are many more disgusting ones.

But theoretically, if his eyes reached the level of an electron microscope, wouldn't he be a furry humanoid monster covered in a blanket of various microorganisms in front of him?

I don't quite understand this kind of viewing angle accuracy.

Perhaps it was already the eye structure of two creatures, and he had gone to the weird and mysterious.

"You know, I'm a phobia of density! I have a heavy cleanliness fetish! ”

Ning Guochang, who was sitting in the isolation and sterile workshop opposite, became excited, with an anxious tone, at a loss, and said very painfully:

"I started to wash my hands like crazy, sprayed disinfectant every day, and used pure water in the bath, so that my body was wrinkled and painful!"

"Even, I built this aseptic workshop, I want to live in the cleanest world!"

"I even wear a bubble helmet and a special protective suit when I go out! Has One Piece seen it? I want a dragon man! ”

He was like a patient in extreme mania, exuding madness and endless pain deeply rooted in his distorted facial expressions.

And if he gets to this position, Li Qing just thinks it's a story of a clean habit and an evolution of a new human being.

I even imagined a sci-fi future.

Thinking about it from a tricky angle: When the immortal cultivators of the high-definition world saw this worldly world, they also gave birth to such a dense phobia, the bacteria everywhere in the world, they were so disgusted that they wanted to vomit, and immediately hid in the sterile room of the cave to practice, and returned to the immortal mountain, not far from the mortal world......

This is not to say the myth of Xianxia, but to talk about modern technology.

In the next few hundred years, the new human beings with the explosion of science and technology will not have to go crazy when they reach this kind of eyesight?

Not to mention later.

Now the visible mites on the quilt are beginning to pay attention to it as people's lives get better and better, and they feel disgusting.

The degree of civilization is linked to the degree of cleanliness.

In the old days, the common people didn't care if you were dirty, whether you were clean or not, whether you were sick after eating, and even this was protein and nutrition.

However, the story of cleanliness began to gradually change into a ghost story.

"If it's a world of bacteria that your eyesight is increasing and you see high-definition picture quality, it's okay."

"But my eyes can control and give wisdom."

Ning Guochang suddenly had a bitter look on his face: "I'm too scared, these microorganisms have wisdom, and now it's too terrifying!" They developed civilizations, just as we apes built tribes in distant Earth eras. ”

Li Qing tried to follow his train of thought for a while.

If it is true, what if microorganisms build civilization, even if they have intelligence?

Their structure is destined to be low-level creatures.

What can a group of low-level creatures that rely on flagella do if they are wise?

Build a campfire? Planting and grazing? Construction machinery? Developing the Steam Age? Stepping into the age of electricity?

Not really.

It is not even possible to make a fire at all.

Because of their size, even if they are intelligent, they cannot do the process of human civilization.

What is the difference between having wisdom and still having wisdom?

"That's what I thought at first."

Ning Guochang smiled bitterly: "But then I found out that human beings are just monkeys who know how to use tools, and it is ridiculous to measure other unknown civilizations with their arrogant cognition." ”

"You know what?"

He looked across the workshop, looking at the little germ army on the table,

"They don't have eyes, but they have mysterious spiritual perception, grazing other microorganisms without intelligence, as my dependents, with weaker telekinesis than me, difficult to disassemble RNA structure, compile, transcribe, build their own biological robots, flagella, shells, directly into the era of biological grazing."

"They build flagellated mounts, giant creature houses out of giant mites, and microscopic cities."

"It took 3.5 billion years for humans to evolve from the microbes in the oceans to today, and they are re-going this process at a very rapid pace."

"They're single cells, they're evolving themselves!"

Seeing this patient confide in pain, Li Qing realized what he was talking about.

This patient, he saw a terrifying history of the evolution of life.

When we can't see the microorganisms with the naked eye, with humanoid intelligence, their civilization far exceeds that of our modern human civilization.

They are naturally a group of great creators in the microcosm.