Chapter Twenty-Four: Passive as God
Wang Xiaotian reacted and said, "The devil's whispering has disappeared. β
When everyone heard this, they immediately felt it carefully.
After a while, Zhang Zijing said: "The devil's whispering has not disappeared, but has been suppressed to a very small extent, and it does not affect our language communication at all. β
Then, Zhang Zijing asked, "Xiaotian." What's going on with this coffin? Also, there's strange writing on it. What does it mean?"
Wang Xiaotian walked to the coffin and saw that there was indeed engraved text on the side of the coffin. However, these words are not the Chuchirk language used by the water monkeys, but the Russi language!
Wang Xiaotian activated the literal translation of consciousness and read: "I don't know who you are, since you can understand this, it means that you should have the ability to complete our unfinished work." β
"The first thing to tell you is what's going on here. I don't know when you'll find it, or when you'll be able to read the words. β
"We don't know what will happen to your chronology compared to what it is now. We can only use the Big Bang as the origin of time. β
"Nine years before the Big Bang, a full-scale war has been going on for two years. And that's not even counting the local conflicts that have been fought for more than two years before. It has entered a state of all-out war, and all funds and materials are tilted towards the military industry and military scientific research. β
"Even for a research institute like ours, which is second to none in the country, the funding has been cut by 70 percent. The researchers in the institute have all been transferred to the military industry department, and those who are incapable can only work hard here. β
"In order to obtain funding, we had to make up a random research project of 'using aquatic life to attack enemy submarines and warships'. As a result, special funding was obtained. β
"The use of marine life, such as dolphins and killer whales, to attack targets such as enemy warships and submarines is not a new topic. As early as the Second World War, there was research in this area. β
"Using the freshwater creatures of Lake Bugar to attack enemy submarines and warships is a new task. The difficulty lies in how to select the target for aquatic organisms. The second is how aquatic organisms approach their targets. β
"The selection of targets is very easy to understand, if you can't distinguish between friend and foe, no matter how powerful the weapon is, it can only be used to die together. β
"The difficulty in approaching the target lies in the fact that with the rapid development of science and technology, all warships and submarines have installed repellent devices against aquatic organisms. In particular, large dolphins, whales, sharks, and other creatures can trigger alarms whenever they get close to warships or submarines. β
"In order to get financial support, we took a unique approach and started with freshwater life. Freshwater creatures are not within the scanning range of warships and submarines, and their proximity will not trigger an alarm, allowing them to raid. β
"However, the size and intelligence of freshwater creatures are hard wounds. Weapons that are too small to carry and can threaten warships and submarines, and lack of intelligence will make it impossible to distinguish between friend and foe. β
"We argued that there are two ways to solve these problems. One is to use dolphins, killer whales and other aquatic creatures as mounts, and then find a smart knight for them to choose targets. β
"The other is to use genetic technology to modify suitable freshwater fish, or to modify intelligent marine creatures, such as dolphins and killer whales, to change their external characteristics and avoid scanning by warships and submarines. β
"After my discussions with Helen and Elvie, we decided to split the two plans. By the way, I haven't told you my name yet, my name is Bavsky, and I'm the director of the institute. Helen and Elvi were my assistants. β
Helen was in charge of transforming the freshwater fish. Elvi is tasked with finding the right knight. I'm in charge of modifying dolphins, killer whales, and other creatures, and how to use brain waves to communicate. β
"After three years of research, we have made a great breakthrough. Helen chose the snakehead as a freshwater fish that had been modified. The snakehead, also known as the black fish, mullet, is a native fish of Lake Bugar. β
"This fish is an extremely ferocious fish-eating fish, and it is protected by strong scales all around, and when placed in the sea, even sharks and squid can be safely escaped. β
However, the snakehead's flaws are also obvious. One is that they are smaller, which can be genetically modified to magnify their size by more than ten times. β
"The other is that the snakehead's eyesight is okay in shallow water, but in the deep sea, it is impossible to find a target more than ten kilometers away through its vision. β
"Helen and I decided to genetically modify the snakehead to have the same ultrasound positioning function as a dolphin based on my brainwave research. This is our biggest mistake. β
"No, from the very beginning, we have already embarked on the wrong path when we applied for this subject in order to obtain funding. This choice made us slide straight into the abyss. β
"Helen is a genius. She succeeded. But she also broke the seal of the devil. No, she can't be blamed for that. It was we who made the mistake together. Luckily, Elvie's research was successful. β
From more than a dozen primates, she selected the most suitable one - the golden snub-nosed monkey. This animal is docile and social, making it suitable for large-scale breeding. What's more, they have a strong ability to imitate and learn things quickly. β
"Elvi genetically modified the golden snub-nosed monkey. Let it have the conditions to survive underwater. For example, breathing with the gills and webbing between the toes strengthens the limbs and enhances lung capacity. β
"As for my own research, a lot of progress has been made. I succeeded in inventing a brain wave machine that can communicate with dolphins, killer whales, and other animals through ultrasound! Thank God, because of this, we don't have a complete failure. β
"Three years before the big bang, our results passed the acceptance and were recognized by the military. The military allocated a large amount of money for us to carry out mass production. The R&D center began mass production around the clock. β
In order to describe the shape of the time, Helen successfully studied the snakehead variant, which she called Ullen. Elvi has successfully researched a variant of the golden snub-nosed monkey, which she calls the water monkey. β
"The dolphins, killer whales, and octopuses that I used in my research later called them divine pets when we taught the Chuqik language to the water monkeys. Let them call us gods. β
"Ulun is reproducing very fast, and in less than two years, it has successfully bred more than 100,000 animals. The breeding of water monkeys is not slow, and tens of thousands of them have been bred. The brainwave instrument I studied has also designed a high-power model, which can cover a scanning range of more than 100 kilometers. β
"The military mobilized a group of Urun and water monkeys, armed with brainwave machines, to the North Pacific for testing. The effect was unexpectedly good, successfully sinking two submarines of the enemy, three warships. He made great contributions to the victory of the naval battle of the Kuril Islands. β
However, this also attracted the attention of the enemy. The military received a clue that the enemy was going to strike at us in a targeted manner. Therefore, the military ordered us to assign all the Ulun and Water Monkey to various units as soon as possible and put them into the battlefield. β
"Just as we had gathered up the Urun and the water monkeys and were about to disperse and transport them away, the enemy's nuclear strike came. β
"A nuclear bomb exploded three hundred meters above Lake Bugar, a strong nuclear radiation, a violent shock wave, directly killed all the creatures outside the bunker. β
"The three of us were lucky enough to be packing up in the bunker. Most of those Ulun and water monkeys were also in the water, and they hadn't had time to load them onto the boat. There is basically no loss of divine favors. β
"However, the shock wave and nuclear radiation of the nuclear explosion are only the beginning of the disaster. An even greater catastrophe is yet to come. Under the influence of nuclear radiation, the creatures of Lake Bugar began to mutate, and the rate of mutation was amazing. β
"Due to the large number of Uren, the confined net is controlled in a small area. Except for the three of us, the rest of the staff at the institute had already died in the nuclear explosion, and no one fodder Ullen had thrown into him, and Ulren began to kill each other. β
"The snakehead is a fish that already has cannibalistic genes, and coupled with the influence of nuclear radiation, Ulen's evolution began to move in a larger and more ferocious direction, and it was out of control. β
"Before the explosion, the number of Urun reached more than 80,000, and before the big bang, we did a rough inventory of the entire Bugar Lake, and the number of Urun was less than 2,000. The rest of the Urun were all reduced to fodder for these Urun. β
"However, these remnants of Urun are all larger than ordinary whales. What's even more terrifying is that these Ulun have been mutated, and the fish scales on their bodies are harder than steel, and ordinary weapons can't hurt them at all. β
"After the nuclear explosion, we reported the situation to the authorities. The military sent troops and gunboats to the lake to clear the Ulun, but it took a week, hundreds of shells, dozens of mines, three gunboats, and only two Urun killed. β
"This time the losses were heavy, and the front line was tight, so the military had to give up on destroying Urun and let us figure it out ourselves. If we don't have a way, move as soon as possible. Because the tide of the war is very unfavorable for us. β
"We thought twice and decided to stay. Because those water monkeys, as well as dolphins, killer whales, etc., need to be taken care of. β
"Many of those water monkeys hid in buildings before the explosion, dodging the radiation and shock waves of the nuclear explosion. However, they have no knowledge of protection, and they can't wait to go out after the nuclear explosion, and they are contaminated with dust, which also causes mutations. β
"The mutation killed more than half of the water monkeys. The remaining small half of the water monkeys, adapted to the mutation. They get stronger and smarter. Since there was no human interference, they soon lived in groups of twenty or thirty animals, scattered in shallow waters around the lake. β
"The reason why it is said that Helen's Ulun has made us slide into the abyss is because the remaining more than 2,000 mutated Ulun have increased by tens or hundreds of times as their size has become tens or hundreds of times larger, and their brain waves have also increased thousands of times. β
"The brainwaves of more than two thousand Ulen, entangled together, completely covered the entire Lake Bugar area, seriously affecting the language communication of the three of us, as well as those water monkeys. β
"In order to ensure effective communication, we began to teach the water monkeys the Chuqik language, which is easy to write and easy to learn. β
"After about a year, we taught the water monkeys not only how to write, but also the basic means of survival, such as fishing, hunting, weaving, etc., and they are alive and well. Ulun and other aquatic life in the lake also maintain a relatively stable ecological balance. β
"The three of us are lucky to be alive despite the effects of nuclear radiation. Because of the nuclear strikes it has taken place, it has no longer been occupied. The impact of the war did not affect us either. I feel like everything is going in a good direction. β
"But I was still naΓ―ve. Because, because the war did not affect us again, it soon happened with a more powerful explosion, and we were almost all killed!"