The main city.

Its vast area seems to have been reduced to a very small extent at this point.

The virus that suddenly appeared from within turned much of the main city into ruins overnight.

The virus spreads from the inside, catching people off guard.

The tallest building in the center of the main city still stands there.

The snake-shaped sculpture of the huge body hovers over the body of the high-rise building like a real snake, wrapping upward, the snake's head looks up at the sky, its eyes are sharp and cold, and its wide mouth reveals sharp and sharp fangs, as if it can bite through the sky with one mouth.

It is the tallest building in the main city, and no matter where you stand in the city, as long as you look up, you can see this majestic giant snake head.

At the moment of the disaster, all the surviving humans ran towards the laboratory, and the hunters in the main city took the laboratory as the center, isolating a huge protective barrier, and the laser protection wall on the perimeter blocked all the surging guys outside!

Unlike in the past, this time, there is no one-size-fits-all order for the hunters' protection.

Unexpectedly, the Doctor demanded that humans who were not infected at all be protected.

Even if the hunter uses his life, he must be rescued.

Absolutely - they can't be made mutants.

*

The white snake head looks up at the blue sky, and that is its disdain for the sky.

The golden-eyed young man standing on top of the snake's head and looking down quietly looked at the ground below that was stained red with blood and corpses, and there was no trace of emotion in his pupils.

It's like watching a foot trample on a dead ant, and you don't care.

When a breeze blew around him, enveloping all the sounds in a quiet space, the boy's eyes flashed slightly, and finally there was a slight mood swing, but the fluctuation seemed to be very cold.

The doctor's young voice rang softly in the boy's ears - "What are you looking at?" ”

Zero One: "Earthly struggles." ”

"Really?" The doctor smiled, "Are you hungry?" ”

The young man replied lightly: "Yes, there are some new nutrients prepared?" ”

"You can enjoy it to your heart's content."

Zero Yi lowered his eyes slightly, and his fine and slender white eyelashes were as thin as cicada wings, and when he trembled slightly, he couldn't help but wonder about the feeling of the fine soft hairs crossing his cheeks.

His pupils became deeper and more terrifying in the next second, accompanied by a scream drowned in the crowd, and the boy's fingertips crossed the corners of his lips, as if wiping something.

"Doctor," he said suddenly, "my body has been shrinking. ”

"Obviously, I've absorbed a lot of nutrients, but I always feel as if those things have never really been digested by me."

The man's helpless laughter came from the electronic screen floating beside him: "Don't worry, maybe it's the falcon consciousness that you devoured before that makes your absorption slow, you can try to swallow more nutrients to speed up digestion." ”

"Everything I have is thinking about you, while the rescued humans in the main city are temporarily safe, please be sure to eat and nourish uninterrupted."

The doctor's words, the teenager was noncommittal.

His eyes glanced in another distant direction, and he said something unrelated to the topic: "...... Doctor, I feel like the books are coming back. ”

*

The border of the main city laser shield.

The chestnut-haired boy in a white coat looked indifferently at the control screen in front of him.

The protective shield of the main city has begun to crack to varying degrees, and it may not be long before this protective wall will be completely breached.

Maroon eyes silently scanned everything in the chaotic crowd.

He was in the main control room at the edge of the protective wall, where the Doctor had sent him to temporarily command the hunters and mechs.

After receiving this order, all the speculations in the boy's mind have been confirmed.

Protecting the living human beings, against all odds.

That's not what the Ph.D. really is for.

*

Rewind to a month ago.

Jing Shu once said:

"Zero One's body is shrinking."

Ling Qi: "...... What do you mean—"

"Two situations-" Jing Shu said: "The other falcon consciousness that has been devoured is preventing Zero One's absorption of nutrients, but although this prevents part of it, it will not cause the consequence of his nutrient flow and body shrinking, so, there is another one." ”

The girl said word by word, and her voice was low: "Someone is stealing the nutrients he absorbs, all the nutrients, and they don't actually enter Zero One's body." ”

This is a bit more likely.

When Jingshu killed Feiye, she had actually sensed that something was wrong, and killing Jia Wei gave her more discoveries.

In the neck of the dead professor, like Feiye, there is a chip that has been robbed of all the high-level genetic nutrients in the body after death.

I thought it was flowing into Zero-One's body after death, but-

The evolved Eagle Eye caught another thread in the air.

It is not a line connecting Zero One.

So, if the second is true, then to whom exactly do those nutrients flow?

Both thought of a guy.

Therefore, he cooperated with Jingshu to act in a play.

The Doctor is a very guarded person, and if you want to put him at ease, you must make him think that Jingshu can really be completely controlled by him.

The nutrients first enter Zero One's body, and then are sent to the doctor's brain by invisible threads.

He is the real beneficiary.

Like a parasite, it absorbs the nutrients of Zero-One.

Let the teenager's body become weaker and weaker.

"If my guess is correct, all the surviving humans will become the food of Zero One, that is, the nutrients of the Doctor, he will definitely not let those humans be infected by the virus again, and after being infected, the genes will deteriorate, and he will not get anything." Ling Qi said: "We can choose to give up defending the city. Let the monsters in. ”

According to this idea, if all the humans in the Eastern Fifteenth District were infected with the virus, then the Doctor would no longer be able to obtain nutrients.

But then, apart from the survivors of the Mechanical City and the humans in some areas of the west, there will be no other humans in this mortal world.

This will be the continent of mutants.

Without human existence, the earthly world has no meaning.

So—

"Think differently, Ling Qi." Jing Shu's eyes were slightly cold, "Since the doctor wants to take away the nutrients through Zero One's body, then why don't you kill Zero One?" Once he died, the medium through which the Doctor needed to absorb nutrients was gone, making it much easier to uproot the lab. ”

*

The chestnut-haired boy took off his white coat, took off his glasses, and slowly walked out of the control room.

Standing on the roof of the tall building, you can see all the artillery fire and fighting under the protective cover in front of you.

There are two ways to block the absorption of nutrients from the Doctor, infect all humans, or kill Zero One.

The girl chose the second type,

She may have been exhausted from her month on the front lines.

But unexpectedly, the virus suddenly raged inside, which caught people off guard.

He urgently turned on the protection, and barely managed to save nearly 300,000 people in the main city.

However, the shield could not withstand it for long.

Jingshu should be on his way back now.

Ling Qi thought, can you catch up?

*

Two tall buildings with laser walls in between.

Beneath the building is a dense mass of mutated monsters, and resisting mechs and hunters are fighting through the protective shield to fight the monsters outside.

Opposite the boy, on top of the tall building outside the protective shield, stood another person.

Zero Six.

The girl's expression was as cold and cold as ever.

Her petite figure stood quietly on the edge of the building.

His eyes stared at the boy, as if he had a lot to say to him.

"Brother, this wall won't be able to withstand for long." Ling Liudao: "The hunters have suffered countless casualties, and the mecha is about to be damaged, but they-" The white finger pointed at the seemingly endless mutant monsters below, and his cold face finally showed a happy smile: "It can't be killed." ”

*

Words with a smile, with the pride of already seeing the ending.

A cold wind blew over the dark clouds for a long time.

However, the girl did not see the boy show any helplessness about losing his way.

So her smile became a little stiff, "Brother, aren't you worried?" ”

"Don't worry."

She suddenly heard the chestnut-haired young man in front of her laughing and saying—

"I'm not worried."

The chestnut-haired boy smiled slightly, his expression indifferent and relaxed, and in his wise eyes was a confident edge that nothing could hide.

"Because—"

"Caught up."

*

The roar of "boom" kept ringing in the sky!

Get everyone's attention!

Zero Six looked back at the horizon, and with just one glance - her eyes widened!

*

The white mecha seemed to form an incomparably hard mecha wall, and everywhere they passed along the way, it was like a spark burning a prairie and spreading around, suppressing the mutant monsters behind them!

"That's hidden under the Machine City, tens of thousands of the latest fully automatic battle mechs." Ling Qi said: "I and all the surviving scientific research personnel in the central region will jointly develop and mass-produce weapons. ”

"The Machine City is actually a vast underground human city.

Above the steppe is a calm village of old people.

But beneath the vast grasslands is the true kingdom of all the survivors of the central region. ”

The third-party forces, including all the scientific research personnel of the district commanders in the five central regions.

-- The five central regions are united by the underground metropolis.

The boy said, "We simply call it." ”

- "Noah's Ark".