Real Players of the Department of Life

Chapter 92

The screen is broken.

After a period of darkness, firefly-like points of light rose up.The hollow mechanical echo echoed in his ears. Zhang Cishun stood in the center of the darkness. Every light point rising into the sky was a broken memory.

Kumar stood beside Zhang Cishun.

He stretched out his palm and watched the light spots passing through his palm.

"This is my first rebirth." He said: "I have gone through this process more than 2000 times, but only the first time has the deepest impression."

A person's first time is the most impressive.

"Every light point here is a memory. Look at those that are extinguished after liftoff. Those are memories that were destroyed by the people during the transfer process."

Zhang Cishun raised his head. As time went by, there were more and more light spots, and more and more of them were extinguished.Only about three-quarters of the light spots finally floated smoothly and rose to the highest altitude as if they were about to go out at any time, and then went out in a sudden flash.

As the sky becomes brighter and brighter, the feeling of ascending from the deep sea becomes clearer.The kind that gets rid of depression and restraint and becomes brighter and brighter.

until the last moment.

The whole world lights up.

"Everything is normal at the moment, data recording. Look at my hand, what is it?" A researcher in white asked Kumar, who opened his eyes.

"three."

"now what?"

"six."

"Okay, please follow the movement of my fingers with your eyes."

"Look here...here...here..."

"Everything is fine, welcome back, Mr. Kumar."

The researcher put away his things, took off the mask on his face, showed a clear smile to Kumar, and stretched out his hand.

The picture freezes at this moment.

Zhang Cishun looked at the female researcher's smile, and finally his eyes fell on the identity tag on her chest.

"null."

"Is she one of the two qualified twins?" Zhang Cishun asked.

"Yes, sister. She has the highest degree of ability development among the two, and she is also one of the people in charge of promoting and improving the plan." Kumar answered.

"Is there any reason for more than 2000 rebirths in two and a half centuries?" Zhang Cishun asked.

250 years, more than 2000 rebirths, an average of more than eight times a year.This number may not seem like a big number, but in reality, it is very high!
"You seem to be sure that I will answer?" Kumar did not answer Zhang Cishun's question immediately, but asked instead.

"This is the memory space, not the data space. Here we have no means of attacking each other. And your 'body' outside is being torn apart by me, and your demise is doomed. As for what you said, I am sure you will answer, Actually not. For me, whether you answer or not, I will eventually find the answer in the next journey of memory. As long as you still remember." Zhang Cishun said calmly.

"What if you don't find the answer from here?" Kumar said, but soon he shook his head and denied his words: "No, it seems that I thought too much, even if you didn't find it from me The answer, you will also find in the heart of the fire.”

When Kumar just spoke, he remembered that he had said that his memory was stored in the Fire Core Matrix, and reading the memory file was not a difficult thing for Zhang Cishun, even... In terms of efficiency, it is much faster than it is now.

"Most of the more than 2000 rebirths were experimental in nature. I only died once, and that was the only one. The one we just watched." Kumar answered Zhang Cishun's previous question: "I am the experimenter. It is also a test product. What City 88 needs is a complete blueprint plan, but in the time period we are seeing now, the blueprint plan is not complete. "

"But it looks like your birth was a success." Zhang Cishun said.

The sound fell, and the frozen picture began to move.

Zhang Cishun and Kumar looked at the screen. When the resurrected 'Kuma' put his cold hand on Sora's and was pulled up from the bed forcefully, Kumar said:
"The happiest time for a screw is when he hasn't realized that he is a screw."

Kumar said something that seemed completely irrelevant.And there seems to be no explanation.

"From the day I was born, the day I opened my eyes, no matter the concepts I was instilled or everything I came into contact with, they all told me that I was human. But in fact... I am not."

"I was born with shackles, or in other words, all clones are born with shackles."

"That shackle is called life span." Kumar said.

"I came from the cells of the original body. Although the cultivated individual is composed of brand-new cells, it only looks brand-new. It is not inside. No one knows which gene or thing records the number of cell divisions. The only thing we know is that even if it is a newly born clone, although the cell lifespan on the surface is brand new, the indelible records inside clearly record the 'lifespan' of the original body."

"In other words, every time you open your eyes, even though you are using a new body, it starts from the day when the cells were separated from the original body. If the original body is 40 years old, then the day when the clone was born One day is 40 years old. If the cells used are collected from the original body that is about to expire, then the lifespan of the clone will follow the original body. "

"We have done extreme experiments. The target of that experiment was a primary body cell that was about to die of old age. We used those cells to cultivate a young body. But unfortunately, when the experimental body died naturally less than 24 hours later, Over time, the clone also died quickly. Natural death."

"Broadcast by cells, natural death."

"We were unable to rescue him because any rescue measures were ineffective. We could only watch helplessly as the living organs died in an instant. He died peacefully and without pain."

"But you know, that was the time when I was most scared, because I was also a clone. But the difference is that my original body died of illness and radiation sickness. He also participated in the longevity program before he was alive, so, I I don’t know when I will die, maybe the next day, maybe the next moment, maybe the next second. In short, at that time I felt that I would die at any time..."

"But you are still alive now, so it cannot be attributed to the longevity plan. So, what technological breakthrough happened?" Zhang Cishun asked.

When he just listened to Kumar's words, he thought about a question. If according to what he said, the lifespan of the clones will follow the remaining lifespan of the original body, then no matter how the clones develop or how many they are, when the original body dies naturally ' time, then it means that all clones will die at a similar time period.This was not what the blueprint planned, and the fact that Kumar is still alive proves that the shackles were lifted before his natural death.

Kumar did not answer Zhang Cishun's question, but looked at the memory fragment in front of him.He could no longer remember the details, but these fragments helped him recall everything.

It's a wonderful feeling.

"Looking back at the history of human development and evolution, you will find that when humans have a self, self-evolution stopped. Instead, there is technological evolution that is promoted along with development."

"It can be said that to a certain extent, after human evolution reaches a certain level, a single path diverges, individual and other. We cannot say that these two paths are completely opposite and do not intersect, but it is obvious that human beings The level of individual evolution is far less rapid than the level of technology that represents 'others'."

"Humans used to create tools and use tools, but now people rely on tools to the point of... giving up their identity as 'humans' and becoming tools. Well, you may not be very clear about this now. During the period before the end of the world, In the human world, the discussion about mechanical ascension is quite popular. Therefore, prosthetics can often be seen on the streets."

"When we eliminate all technology and look back at human beings, you will actually find that human beings have not continued to move forward on the path of individual evolution, but have encountered a threshold. This threshold is not high in the first place, but because of the development of our science and technology The level is too high, so...the threshold is raised abruptly."

"Natural selection is cruel."

"So...in the view of technology, individual evolution is a disease. Since it is a disease, then...someone will naturally overcome it. So, it is human beings who stand on the high platform and will continue to move forward again and again. He pushed it down by himself."

Zhang Cishun listened to Kumar's words silently. It wasn't until he stopped that he interrupted and said, "Cancer?"

"Not relevant, cancer cells."

"So the shackles of the blueprint plan back then were the keys obtained from cancer cells?" Zhang Cishun asked.

"Yes, the cancer cells of the original body are still preserved in the laboratory. These cells are being carefully cultivated and used as seeds for my body cultivation."

The scene in front of them dimmed, and just as the two of them were talking, the next plot entered.

In his memory, Kumar was standing on a high-rise building in City 88. There was a strong wind, but it was not naturally formed, but a jet of energy airflow.There is a huge flying device in the sky above the city. It doesn't look like a spaceship, but it's not an airplane either.

The shape is very strange, industrial-shaped, and looks like an alien.It is not aerodynamic, nor does it need to be aerodynamic, because all it needs is force to fly.

The propulsion is powerful enough to do anything it wants to do.

The words 101 were painted on the top of the aircraft, but it was somewhat faded. This fading was not natural fading, but was caused by scratches and friction.

"It comes from the northwest, City 101. All the way to the east, it builds the initial message channel when the chaos gradually subsides after the end of the world. City 88 is the third to last stop in its plan. Its arrival makes City 88 no longer a An island, but integrated into a group.”

"I was very excited at the time, but looking at it on a time scale, its arrival brought heavy damage to City 88."

Zhang Cishun looked at the person in the distance who was handing over the cargo transportation and didn't understand why Kumar said that.But he was not in a hurry, because Kumar would definitely explain it to him.

"Humanity's voyage fleet has tens of thousands of ships. As a disaster response ship, it has given up all unnecessary functions. Its only advantage is that it is large. One ship of the voyage fleet can accommodate three fire ships."

Three fire ships?
Zhang Cishun silently thought about its appearance, and had to admit that it was really big.

"The voyage fleet aircraft took away almost all human beings. The reason why I use the word "almost" is because there are always some people who are not worthy of being taken away, some people are unwilling to leave, some people are incapable of leaving, and some people are not worthy of being taken away. People don’t believe in the end of the world. These people formed the later Blue Star survivor group and were also the original aborigines of Numbered City.”

"The original aborigines did not have much advanced knowledge, strong bodies, or liberated minds. The only advantage was probably... being obedient. After all, those who were disobedient died. At first, the aborigines began to rely on technological creations on a large scale. This It wasn't a bad thing at the time, until...the end came. City 88 used to be isolated from the world, so I don't know what has become of the south. The arrival of Ship 101 opened a gap for City 88, and we were exposed coordinate."

"Sounds a bit nonsense." Zhang Cishun said: "The coordinates...are meaningless based on the technology at that time? They can all fly into space..."

Kumar shook his head.

"Have you seen Doommon?"

Zhang Cishun shook his head. Don't look at the pile of various information about the Doomsday Beast in his mind now, but these information are all in the form of text or oral narration. Without pictures, Zhang Cishun can't even imagine it. .

"It's like... the shadow of the human species. The worse we are at something, the better they are at it, and the better we are at something, the less good they are at something."

"On the road of evolution, the relationship between Doommon and humans is like reality and reflection. Humans can never surpass Doommon in terms of individual power, and Doommon can never master technology."

"If we use the word 'alive' to summarize the direction of human progress."

"Then Doommon's rule is - 'Don't let humans live'."

"It sounds funny, right, but that's the fact. Many doomsday beasts in the wilderness have always adhered to this code of action. We don't know how many numbered cities have been destroyed in their hands, and the coordinates are not exposed. What is given to humans is exposed to them.”

"After that, City 88 experienced its first attack by the Doomsday Beast."

"It was a heavy rain, a rain of insects that covered the sky."

"Everything has been swept away, eaten, and digested. If City 88 was not built on fire and if I had opened up enough permissions to retain enough 'fire' before the disaster came, City 88 would have been destroyed." It no longer exists."

Insect rain?

Zhang Cishun imagined that scene, but couldn't imagine it anyway.But soon, he no longer needed to think about it, because...

"Look, here they come."

Kumar's voice suddenly sounded.

Accompanied by the darkening sky and the dead buzzing.

"Before the end of the world, they had a very interesting name, chili peppers, which were edible. But the end of the world has changed the relationship between humans and them."

(End of this chapter)