out of cage

Chapter 161 Chapter 5.07 The Origin of the Apostles, North and South City-States
The apostles are the highest-level node creatures born on the earth after the Pandora era came.

They are the core organisms that are finally formed after the genes of all biomes converge in a large ecological area!This is an inevitable product of the natural development of Pandora's field ecology.

However, the birth of most of the apostles on earth is inseparable from the last madness of human beings in the last days!

On the timeline developed by Luo Hongxing's team, the travelers collected a lot of information on this plane.There was once a team that arrived in the Great Lakes region of North America, where it was determined that the apostle "Billion Eyes" existed in the Great Lakes region.

This apostle is very strange, similar to the mirage hyphae in the Mekong River Basin, it is difficult to see the existence of its central body.

Every creature that enters this area will have an extra strange eye just like a tumor.A deer running on the ground will have such an eye on its neck, a bird flying in the sky may have an eye on its abdomen, and even some trees will have an eye somewhere.

These eyes are capable of observation, but where will the collected information eventually converge?
Based on measurements of genetic radiation, it appears to be in the center of the Great Lakes.And the strange thing about this center is that there are a lot of stranded ships.

On one of the timelines dedicated to adventure.

Sun Luoxi Zhongqing (female) led the team here and found the laboratory under the mud.In the laboratory, some living brain tissue was found, which may be part of the brain tissue that was accidentally metabolized when "Eye" moved the body.

When Sun Luoxi discovered this brain tissue, he was parasitized on the spot.The life radiation of this thing is very strong, and it will be seized immediately after parasitism.

Sun Luoxi withdrew from the area before being completely infected, lay down in the life support cabin, and fell into a coma for forty days.The system directly docked with the life radiation effect of "Human Emperor" from the Pandora space bubble, and pulled her back.After she woke up, she immediately dictated the memories she obtained during the fusion.

The predecessor of the "billion eyes" of the Great Lakes was a human being, a human doctor in North America.Let's call him "Dr. Strange".

Sun Luoxi: "The memory is very vague, but it is very clear. Dr. Qi has entered and exited some laboratories with biochemical symbols and obtained some exciting discoveries. He has declared in public many times that human technology can resist the Pandora field. The life refraction effect. This doctor seems to have been promoted by the mainstream media as a scientific beacon and served as the chief health officer, but...

According to memory, he kept quite close ties with some powerful oligarchs in private.This kind of connection is different from what he announced to the outside world as 'leading the world to fight against xx', but he excitedly expounded some discoveries! "

[Project Hella: In January 1951, scientists collected a cervical cancer cell line from a woman.Then, within a few decades, in laboratories around the world, as experiments required infinite divisions, this cell line became immortal. 】

eternal life!

When human civilization discovered that Pandora could not be solved.

At the top of human society, the gang of giants who control the Internet, energy, and food began to consider—survive in the apocalypse in another form.

Lifespan is developed when life needs iterative evolution.When iterative evolution stabilizes on a certain route, the lifespan of species will be gradually extended, but the higher life of the earth system still has a lifespan limit.

And the early life, in the early stage of evolution, was very random about the lifespan, and the life of the most primitive coral polyp could reach thousands of years.

And in the earlier period, when the earth was not oxidized and covered with thick creepers, carbon-based life was immortal.

The Pandora field refracts the nerve cells of human beings and other higher organisms into the lower organisms, and there is a fusion that makes all human beings uneasy.

However, Dr. Qi also discovered in the petri dish that the human lifespan can obtain the unrestricted benefits of these lower lives: cell telomeres are greatly extended, and physical immortality is no longer a problem, as long as a way to preserve thinking and consciousness can be found.

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The reading of the memory is broken here.

However, with the in-depth investigation of multiple timelines, underground laboratories have been discovered in North America, South America, the Indian subcontinent, Africa, and southern Europe, and the relevant locations mentioned in these memories.All the laboratories also "just happen to" be the apostles' entrenched areas.

In the last stage of human civilization, those people at the top of society who occupy resources and are more free than ordinary people also started the final madness.

Perhaps, for a long time, they may have needed such an answer. ——The so-called belief that the earth’s resources are consumed too much, and the population needs to be reduced to restore the earth’s balance!The group of "Grand Dukes" who proposed such a "reduction plan" certainly did not want to reduce themselves, but to let others reduce.

When human beings are on the verge of extinction and need to survive, the designated survival plan is that a small number of elites bring enough girls, well, there may be a small number of boys, and sit on the ark.

Some people feel that as long as they survive, they survive on behalf of humanity. ——Because, ah, I am a "voter".

Wei Keng (Zhen Xinzheng), who was leaning on the mechanical beast, after reading Bai Linglu's information, heaved a sigh of relief and said, "In other words, some thinking of the previous generation of civilization still survives in the individual apostle. ?"

Dimensional Space Bubble
Bai Linglu: "Yes, so there is also a power struggle between them."

Bai Linglu waved his hand and greeted the interface, further describing the end times for Master Wei.

Scene: On the vast South American plateau, there are 200-meter-high, bare sticks standing on it.Water stains appeared on the top of the tower, and green lines flowed on the stick.

This is a giant tower built by creatures like giant termites, pumping groundwater to irrigate the green tower body, and the algae on the tower body are stretched and brought into the cave in the tower by termites, forming the flowing lines on the giant tower.

This group of towers was built by the South American Tallinn Nest Master (Apostle).

In the No.17 stage of the expedition, the exploration team of our own civilization arrived here.They looked up at the group of towers, and had a very brief exchange with the apostle as explorers of time and space.

The apostle’s quasi-human thinking responded to the space-time explorer’s inquiry in this way: the arrival of it (the Pandora field) did not eliminate anything, on the contrary, it increased a lot.

After hearing such an apostle's answer, Wei Keng was stunned, and immediately thought: "What has been added?"

But in an instant, I suddenly understood that this was not an addition to "people like myself", but from the perspective of "those people".And the increase in the perspective of "those people" has something to do with me?
Wei Keng smiled and said in a low voice: "What does the dream created by [-] have to do with the people who participated in [-]?" (sarcasm)

It was just the space bubble, Bai Linglu paused, she opened her mouth, trying to explain:

"What I mean is, I want you to understand, as an apostle-level existence, your position in this world." This final introductory sentence was choked up by Bai Linglu.

But suddenly, a feeling of "it's not bad" appeared in Bai Linglu's heart.She felt that if Wei Keng understood it like this, the whole world of Pandora might be more interesting, um, and achieve more different results.

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For two weeks, nothing happened.

At least for Wei Keng (Zhen Xinzheng), there is nothing else to do except study.

So nothing extra was done.

Supplement: Wei Keng in the empty twisting plane also has this virtue.

But on this planet, in the Eastern Ocean, colonies of corals and pyrites in the seawater are fighting each other.

On the other hand, there is no "true Xinzheng" name in the outing team organized by Jianye Southern Research Institute.

145年8月23号，早上六点。当卫铿还在床上迷糊，打算继续养精蓄锐到闹铃定时的7:30。

The team organized by the college has already set off towards the rising sun.

At nine o'clock in the morning, under the Purple Mountain Observatory, the teaching director Wang Lexi looked at the outstanding students selected this year, quite proud.Next is the team waiting for the visitors from the north to arrive.

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Jianye in the south, five colors in the north.

This is the Pandora era, the two largest human city-state groups in the eastern part of the world island.

The fact that most of Jianye's industries, population, and science and technology centers are combined in a super-large central city is due to its special historical and geographical factors.

The five-color alliance in the north was formed 160 years ago by the linking of five industrial cities, and these five industrial cities were all connected through the waterway network in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.

Historically, when Jianye City in the south began to use the protection effect of human communities.

The northern garrison also began to organize and integrate, completed the production recovery of five cities, and then moved towards the North China Plain to radiate influence.

However, due to the limitation of river traffic, this makes the development of the five northern cities more even.And when the human forces in the south and the north went their separate ways, the five-color alliance still occupied orthodox elements for a long time!In other words, it inherited the elements of the legal system of the previous regime.

It's just that this orthodoxy, and the arrogance that comes with it, is slowly dissolving.

With the development of Jianye City, and the gene group of the Five-color Alliance that was difficult to contain in the Yanjing defense line in the Bohai region consumed a lot of resources and involved most of the energy.

In the past few decades, the Five Colors Alliance has dealt with Jianye on an equal footing.

The exchange of young personnel between the two sides every four years has also gradually sent people from the south to the north, and sent people to the other side in turn.

This time it happened to be the turn of the northern five-color alliance to send an exchange team to Jianye.

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On the side of the Five Colors Alliance,

The team of 220 five people, combined with a large number of mechanical beasts, passed through the harassment of a large number of gene communities in the Huai River area along the way, and finally shuttled to the southern civilization area.

This group of nobles in the north is now full of dust.

Just like in the 21st century, no matter what kind of clothes, as long as they sit on a tractor, they will be dirty.

This is not Comic-Con, where dust is the norm.

But even the dusty,

It is also difficult to conceal the youthful atmosphere of these young master trainers.

Teenagers and junior high school students don't need any cosmetics, their skin is natural and transparent.And the trainers who have completed the life symbiosis with the mechanical beasts are even more vigorous.

Chen Hefen, the northern heavenly king trainer, is a man who looks like he is only 45 years old, but is actually [-] years old.When he met Wang Lexi, the representative of the Southern Mentor, the two unfurled the banner together and completed the photo shoot in front of the spotlight.

Although the two major groups, the North and the South, compete secretly, they still have to put on a smile and maintain various connections.Just like the relationship between the EU, Britain and France before the Great Destruction.

However, the younger generation does not have this awareness.

As the team leader, Qiu Mengfei, the first thing he saw was the leader from the north, a tall girl.A little bit of black smoke from a steam train stuck to her face, but a little bit of dirt didn't affect her natural beauty in the slightest.

And when he looked at her, she looked at him too.

The girl seemed to feel that this was a challenge, and looked at each other fearlessly.This added a confident and fiery temperament to her already beautiful appearance.

(If Wei Keng were here, he would have interpreted the expression in the eyes of this big northern girl as: What are you looking at? ——and no matter how beautiful a girl is, once Master Wei makes up the Northeast dialect in his brain like this. That's... )
Qiu Mengfei stared blankly at the sharp gaze, then smiled.

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The reaction of the young people when they met for the first time naturally fell into the eyes of the team leader.

Wang Lexi looked at these passionate young people, with a smile on his lips, and couldn't help saying: "It's good to be young."

Chen Hefen: "Yes, they are the future."

tens of kilometers to the south,
Wei Keng got up and came to school every day to look for a tutor.But I saw a sign that said it was closed today on the entrance of the teaching hall.

Wei Keng patted his forehead and said, "Um, I should have known earlier."

The arrival of exchange scholars from the north is a big event.

If it is an organization with a clear division of labor between departments, no matter how big the external event is, it will not affect other departments.

For example, this is the case with the Commanding Army. When the Battle of Southern Jiangxi started, full authority was handed over to the military logistics department that assigned the task.The operations of other Zhanjiang areas, Zhuxin areas, and various railway platforms have not been affected.The "Zhenxinzheng" who stayed in the north to study did not put down their learning tasks because the battle in the southern Jiangxi theater was in full swing, and brought a semi-finished mechanical beast to the south for support.

But Jianye College is not like this.

The technical exchanges between the North and the South have affected people in various departments.No, the mentor who was responsible for answering his own questions closed the door. Obviously, rather than answering the non-elite disciples' inquiries, he needed to prepare his energy and pay attention to the elite disciples from the north.It is more meaningful for them to understand the gap between the two sides.

After Wei Keng wandered around outside the school building for three times, he retreated helplessly.

Bai Linglu just popped out and "resolved" Wei Keng who had been shut down: "Actually, they didn't talk about anything in the north, they were discussing about capturing the weakened apostle——Tianzhulong. If you think Don't give you face here, or let's lead the fleet northward and directly destroy the biome on the continental shelf of the East China Sea!"

Wei Keng glanced at Bai Linglu: "This is a good idea, and it can save face. But, you know me, and I will never work hard for the sake of face."

Bai Linglu: "Oh, ha, oh, that's it. I'm just making a suggestion, as long as you don't mind."

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Facing reality, Wei Keng is fearless.So the reality quickly taught the thick-skinned master Wei Keng a lesson.

To be plain is to be marginalized.Especially, when some brighter centers appear.

In the afternoon, Wei Keng was pulled up by the student union to go (as a foil) to meet the exchange students from the north.At the exchange meeting, Wei Keng was bored at this time, so he checked the two plot characters repeatedly emphasized by the system.

Qiu Mengfei, Su Lingshuang.

After Wei Keng saw their plots in other timelines, he said "hmm", became interested temporarily, and decided to say hello to them.

So I squeezed in, and prepared to say a few omens to Qiu Mengfei, "We must guard against the retaliation of the sky and the dragon in the future".

As a result, as soon as he said "senior", Qiu Mengfei stopped politely: "Student, I have a lot of things to do here today." Then he bid farewell to Wei Keng.

Simply rejecting people thousands of miles away made Wei Keng return from high spirits to social phobia.

Master Wei left in embarrassment.

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Of course, what Master Wei didn't know was that Su Lingshuang happened to see his sudden whim just now, and under Su Lingshuang's glance, Wei Keng walked away from Qiu Mengfei awkwardly.

When Qiu Mengfei stood with Su Lingshuang again.

Su Lingshuang said leisurely: "There are many flatterers around you."

Qiu Mengfei paused and said, "No, that's also a new classmate who wants to ask me something, but I'm too busy today."

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Before returning to his dormitory.

Wei Keng (Zhen Xinzheng) stretched out his hand, took a blade of grass hanging from the roof of the building, and said slowly: "I am an ordinary person. It is true in Jianye, and it is the same in the unified cutting area."

Master Wei absolutely rejected all plans to disturb the main plot.

(End of this chapter)