Real Players of the Department of Life

Chapter 93

The four words "black clouds over the city" suddenly appeared in Zhang Cishun's mind. These four words could not be more appropriate to describe the current scene.

The redundant insect cloud that enveloped City No. 88 brought an unparalleled sense of oppression and despair.Zhang Cishun is not a person who is afraid of bugs, but at this moment, he only felt numb all over and goosebumps surged up in waves.

City No. 88 fell into chaos, but it didn't give humans much time to react. The insects rained down.

First it was the moths. When their withered yellow wings vibrated, they would make a popping sound. Fine powder was sprinkled from their wings, and following their movements, it quickly spread and filled the air.

The dim storm of insects swept through the city, knocking away everything that was fragile and destroying everything that could be destroyed.When life is exposed to their sight, hundreds of moths will swarm up and cover the life.

The sound of struggling was drowned in the sound of insects, and then quickly disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, various green, red, and yellow larvae fell from the insect cloud, and fell to the ground in a daze.Some were unlucky and fell on sharp objects, and the fragile insect body was penetrated, and oily body fluids flowed out from the wound. However, this did not make it die, but made it struggle more and more crazily.

More larvae landed safely, and soon the ground was covered with a thick carpet of insects.

They squirmed, searching for the life forms that had been killed by the adult insects before, and then rushed forward desperately, using their sharp mouthparts to cut through the soft skin and suck the body fluids that had not yet cooled down.

Mountains of insects rise from the ground.

Under every insect mountain, there is a corpse of a lost life.

A feeling of suffocation surrounded Zhang Cishun.It was as if a pair of invisible hands were holding his throat.

Kumar also seemed very silent at this moment. Unlike Zhang Cishun, he was a witness and survivor of this disaster. No one could understand his despair.

Zhang Cishun looked at the disaster on the ground, while Kumar looked up at the insect cloud high in the sky.

The insects that landed were a drop in the bucket to the entire insect cloud.

Zhang Cishun watched. After the larvae sucked enough body fluids, the squirming mountains of insects began to form hard shells, and these shells integrated with City No. 88.

The city became quiet.

Moths inhabit any place they can settle down, forming a densely packed area. They seem to be waiting for something.

And indeed waiting for something.

Soon, those shell mountains began to tremble, and cracks spread.

Just like a chick breaking out of its shell, new moths hit the shell mountain. When the crack appears, the new moth forms a new storm and surges out, dancing wantonly like the tentacles of an octopus. Until finally, it gathered into a dark cloud.

puff--

There is no laughter, only the sound of wings that becomes more and more cheerful.They begin to return and then lift off.

Return to their own insect cloud.

In 28 minutes, this disaster was over.

What is left in City No. 88 is the pain and mess that cannot be erased.

"They...are also doomsday beasts?" Zhang Cishun looked at an insect corpse at his feet. Unfortunately, it was a larva that had been penetrated.

While other members of the same species were enjoying this gluttonous feast, it was struggling.

It had been showing great vitality until - the insect cloud disappeared.It gradually quieted down and then became stiff.

"Individuals are not," Kumar replied.

"You mean, it's the entire insect cloud."

Kumar nodded: "Theoretically, yes, we have collected a lot of information, and a lot of data proves this conjecture."

"Conjecture?"

"Yes, speculation. We have not been able to prove our theory, but we have not been able to falsify it either. It is like an academic conjecture before the end of the world. We have no way to falsify it, but it does not prevent its use."

"It's not difficult to destroy the insect clouds with existing weapons and obtain their cores, right?"

Zhang Cishun said, The reason why he said this is because the weapons of the Fire Ship under his feet may not be the most advanced, but it is not impossible to destroy a swarm of insects.

"It's difficult." Kumar shook his head: "We are standing on the ground now, but if you walk into the ship, you will find that when City 88 was enveloped by the insect swarm, all the instruments failed. I don’t know how to tell you... When they enveloped this place, the foundation of the human technological building was destroyed by a brief distortion."

"What do you mean?"

"It means that one plus one is not equal to two when they come and envelope them. This may be the ability of their core. After all... there are many strange doomsday beasts in the wilderness, and there are always some abilities that subvert human imagination. .”

"One plus one does not equal two. Its overthrow means that all the achievements we have built on this are all illusions. The fire is paralyzed."

Zhang Cishun was silent, and Kumar calmly said the most desperate words.

"After this disaster, the scientific and technological path of City 88 has changed, and all scientific research directions have begun to shift towards biology. We know that qualified people exist, and we also want to... let everyone have qualified people. The power of the one.”

"Now it seems that it has failed?"

"No, it's just not successful yet." Kumar said: "Maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow, maybe..."

Kumar was full of expectations, but obviously, in Zhang Cishun's view, no matter whether the direction was wrong or not, he would never be able to see it again.

This memory fragment seemed very long. Zhang Cishun watched the survivors rise from the cracked ground, walk up, then kneel down, cry bitterly, and then numbly clean up the city.

Vomiting, coma.

Until the last habit.

"After a major disaster, comes a major epidemic. We thought that with our technological level we could easily quell subsequent disasters, but we failed." Kumar said: "Insect corpses are always there at a level that we can't see or catch. It exudes a special kind of fluctuation, and this kind of fluctuation transforms people who walk back onto the ground into insect-men."

"They have no reason and no desire to attack. They only eat and reproduce. After the big commotion, they ate everything they could eat and began to move in the direction of the insect cloud."

Zhang Cishun suddenly asked: "First there was the great purge of the insect cloud, and then there was the great riot of the insect people... Are there any survivors in City 88?"

"Yes, but not one in a hundred survives. However, judging from the time span of the remaining living individuals, it only takes a few years to recover."

Years……

Will humans have this time?
The coordinates have been exposed. The breakthrough from zero to one is difficult, but the breakthrough from one to two is simple.

City No. 88 has completed the transformation from zero to one.

This insect rain, this insect plague, is the great victory of the Doomsday Beast.

"How many times has City 88 experienced a disaster of this scale?" Zhang Cishun asked, thinking about it.

"Only this time."

Only... this time?
"Have you seen those shells? In the past, creatures in nature would use the smell of feces and urine to indicate their territory, and these shells are the 'smell' left by those bugs. We break these shells and then re- It is built into the wall of City No. 88, so although this place is still the residence of humans, in the eyes of Doomsday Beast, this place is actually a giant 'shell'."

A giant 'shell'... A huge disaster, in a ridiculous way, left a way out for the surviving lives.

Zhang Cishun wanted to say something, but didn't know where to start.

At this moment, this long memory began to shatter.

New memory fragments begin to form.

One laboratory, eight researchers.

There are two transparent culture cabins, but there are no people in the cabins, only... brains.

"Well... Sora and Shiro." Kuma said, "This is the scene after their death."

"They perfected the blueprint plan, but unfortunately, the blueprint plan did not take effect on their bodies. All the clones of the person they came from failed. We guess it is related to their ability to be qualified. "

Kumar said, before he could finish speaking, the memory was shattered again.

What followed was a... meeting.

There were not many participants in the meeting, but only Kumar was the entity, and the others were in the form of projections.There is another one... which is the logo of x.

"...Mr. Dongyue's book "The Decline of Mankind" before the end of the world pointed out that the mutation speed of all living things is roughly synchronous or slow-lag with the change speed of their living conditions. Only the physical and physiological variation of human beings is relatively rapid changes It appears to be seriously lagging behind in terms of humanistic conditions, resulting in adaptation difficulties and related diseases, which are so-called "civilization diseases", including ecological civilization diseases, environmental civilization diseases, nutritional civilization diseases, infectious civilization diseases, and spiritual civilization diseases Disease etc.

Its seriousness lies in the fact that it is a crisis of "total maladaptation" that has never occurred among various species in the entire biological history. "

The mechanical sound was somewhat familiar to Zhang Cishun. After a brief memory, he knew where this familiarity came from.

X.

Artificial Intelligence

"What are we discussing?" Zhang Cishun asked.

Kumar thought about it, but couldn't remember.So he shook his head: "It's probably not something important, I can't remember it clearly."

When Zhang Cishun listened to his words and turned his attention to Kumar in his memory, he saw that he had a drowsy posture in his memory.

Obviously... for him, the passage narrated by X was a bit boring.And it has a very strong hypnotic effect.

“…To sum it up: there are seven things that destroy mankind.

Politics without principles, wealth without hard work, knowledge without personality, science without humanity, business without morality, pleasure without conscience, and worship without sacrifice. "

"We will use this to establish the Human Survivors Alliance to supervise and supervise the healthy development of mankind. I hope today's survivors can join..."

"X! Who are you speaking as? Artificial intelligence?" Someone in the audience interrupted X's words.

The icon of

"..."

A quarrel, a quarrel that got worse.

One of the two parties in the quarrel is a human, and the other is artificial intelligence X who speaks on behalf of 'humans'.

"What is the Survivor Alliance?" Zhang Cishun asked.

"I don't know." Kumar answered simply: "City 88 rejected the proposal and is therefore independent from the alliance."

"But since you have integrated "mechanical intelligence", you have probably met X. "Kuma said: "As the highest level of artificial intelligence today, X has very high authority, and its traces are everywhere on the Internet. "

"Of course, it does not exist in the network of City 88. We have set up a firewall. Although the firewall is very fragile, based on the agreement between humans and artificial intelligence, it will never be able to actively break through the firewall."

Understand, guard against gentlemen, not villains.

"Are you hostile to it?" Zhang Cishun said suddenly.

Kumar paused, then nodded.

"Am I being obvious?"

"Why? Judging from what it said, the existence of the Survivor Alliance should be a good thing."

Kumar smiled: "I trust my intuition more. Moreover, you can't put all your eggs in one basket. What's more, from the moment the technological direction of City 88 tilted toward biology, it was destined that here, we must Become a forbidden area for artificial intelligence."

"Because any experiment here is anti-human in the eyes of artificial intelligence."

Zhang Cishun narrowed his eyes and glanced at him: "It seems that you have a clear understanding of City No. 88."

"I've been sober this whole time."

The memory images changed faster and faster, and as the speed increased, Kuma became more and more blurry.

If nothing else, he will disappear.

"You don't seem to be panicking about your impending death."

"Because you won't let me go." Kumar said with a smile: "But it doesn't matter, it's the same thing, you can't kill me."

"Are you still so confident now?"

"You still don't understand. Maybe you never will."

……

Zhang Cishun opened his eyes.

The bright moon and the bright sun were in the sky, the volcano was still erupting, and Kuma's figure at the mountain pass was already extremely thin.It's like...a paper-cut without any color.

The huge memories belonging to Kuma have all been accepted by Zhang Cishun, which makes Zhang Cishun a little tired in his "mechanical intelligence" state.

Those rational eyes showed a weak and tired light after a long absence.

"Zhang Cishun, I have a message for you." Suddenly, Kumar spoke, his voice was low, but there was a sense of relief: "All dangerous response plans have become the danger itself."

"You! No! Wise Man!"

Kumar almost yelled the last five words in the form of a roar. The sound echoed in the wilderness, but Kumar had completely disappeared.

Only the glow continues to rise.

Zhang Cishun grinned and looked at the glow: "Of course I know that I am not a wise man. What I can do is to learn lessons again and again, and think deeper every time. There is no born wise man, I believe more and grow. "

"And progress."

(End of this chapter)