Ning hesitated for a moment, "He wants to ask you, if the museum is turned into a bait city, and Shangfeng wants to clear out all the bait cities because of a few bait cities, will you agree?"
Hearing this, An Yu glanced at Qin Zhilu subconsciously. The man's profile was still calm and determined, as if he didn't hear their argument at all.
He looked away and said calmly: "Of course I agree. Isn't this something that will happen sooner or later and should happen?"
Qin Zhilu suddenly interrupted: "Watch your steps."
They had penetrated deep into the middle of the museum, and a large area of thick tree roots burst out from the land. Like all genetically complex aberrations, those tree roots also show a variety of colors - green, purple, brilliant blue... The earth is like a dead aberration, with blood vessels bursting out from under the skin, bursting, and flowing out. Once blood and nutrients.
The difference is that what exploded from the tree roots were various smelly and ugly corpses. The people and buildings that were absorbed from Area 93 as nutrients have been integrated underground. At first glance, it is like putting the people and buildings roughly into a kneading machine. Indescribable interactions have occurred between the flesh and blood and the bricks, earth, and steel bars. They merged, grew together abnormally, and turned into large chunks of things that couldn't be told whether they were human beings or industrial building materials. It was shocking.
Exploded tree roots spread all over half of the museum, and ugly and deformed corpses covered the land. Abnormalities and fishy odors were everywhere. An and Ning's eyes were empty when they looked at them. An's eyes were completely merged with a telephone pole. The man together was stunned for a long time before Ning pulled him forward and continued.
An Yu watched all this in silence, and the strong visual impact made his heart beat wildly.
The indescribable chaos in front of him was pushing the bottom line of that thing.
"Will this be the end of everything?" Ning murmured: "Not only the genetic fusion between living things, but also the boundaries between living things and matter will be broken. All order will disappear, everything will be chaotically integrated, and it will be complete disorder, eventually leading to heat death.”
The dead land and the absurd corpses on the ground silently stared at the person who asked the question.
After a long while, Qin Zhilu nodded lightly, "Yes. The universe came from chaos, and sooner or later it will return to chaos."
He paused and then whispered: "This is just a small microcosm."
An Yu turned his head and looked at the officer. Whether it was an illusion or not, he felt that the commander's reaction was too bland.
Although Qin Zhilu has always been so calm and composed, his tone at this moment seemed as if he had seen such a scene before, or even something more serious.
An Yu suddenly remembered that he once said he saw the end of the world in Area 95.
An Yu is not interested in the ending of the world. He just wants to live his short life peacefully. The fusion of all things, the heat death of the world, these future disasters are not even as important to him as the bakery's turnover tomorrow.
But something went wrong, and he asked softly, "Is there a way to stop this?"
Qin Zhilu paused, then continued walking forward, saying in a deep voice: "We can't stop it from coming, but we can find a way to deal with it after it arrives."
An Yu immediately asked, "How to solve it?"
"Gather the irreversible chaos together and then completely destroy it." Qin Zhilu looked indifferent, "That was actually the idea of District 95 back then. It's just that District 95 itself is a closed container, and the chaos did not have time to spread outwards. The whole city was cleared of them, which saved humans a lot of effort.”
An Yu actually didn't quite understand. If the whole world turned into that, would the whole world have to be bombed?
But Qin Zhilu didn't seem to intend to discuss it further. His black eyes scanned everything on the ground, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.
Ann was so stimulated by the scene in the museum that her mental strength declined. Surrounded by several large blue morpho butterflies, she reluctantly continued to move forward. They walked for a few more minutes before finally seeing soldiers wearing protective clothing.
Tang Feng was also there, his black tights covered with blood, and his former appearance was almost unrecognizable. He frowned, and while listening to the officer's report, he frequently turned his head and looked behind him.
Behind him was the body of the bad seed. The tree trunk, which was hundreds of meters in diameter, collapsed to the ground and exploded completely like the deep and shallow veins on the surface. However, the scene inside the trunk was more impactful. An only glanced at it from a distance. He decisively turned around, took Ning's hand, and let more big blue morpho butterflies completely surround him.
Qin Zhilu went over to listen to their negotiations, leaving An Yu alone.
An Yu's eyes passed over the shocking fused corpses and looked at the familiar figure sitting in the pile of corpses.
Zhu Tao was sitting on the half body.
It was a woman who had been fused with the steel bars. Her face had been mixed with the steel bars, and it was only vaguely possible to tell that she was probably not young. Her two eyeballs were suddenly squeezed out, their shape was irregular, and they were also in a semi-dried state.
Zhu Tao hugged his knees and sat on top of her. Half of his trouser legs disappeared, and his ankles exposed to the wind were covered with bloodstains.
An Yu took two steps forward, then stopped abruptly.
Zhu Tao's eyes were empty, which made him afraid to get close for a while.
"The on-site data has been confirmed." The officer reported to the mechanical sphere floating in the air: "We immediately arranged for all personnel to evacuate and destroy the museum area. Based on the brain assessment, on the premise of not harming areas 93 and other areas, Reduce weapon specifications. If it cannot be cleared once, the operation will be repeated multiple times."
Dingfeng's voice came from inside, "Has Qin Zhilu arrived at the scene?"
Qin Zhilu took the spherical recorder directly from the air, "I'm here."
Ding Ding breathed a sigh of relief, with a hint of helplessness in his voice, "Bring Zhu Tao back well. Tell him that as a lawful person, you are not qualified just to kill a few freaks for humans. It's big right and wrong, can't he understand it?" ?"
Qin Zhilu did not answer, and Dingfeng said seriously: "His direct supervisory officer allows him to do whatever he wants. As the highest interpreter of the minaret, you should always fulfill your responsibilities."
Qin Zhilu only said, "Jiao Jiao and I have just arrived here. Let's first understand what my responsibilities are."
As he spoke, he simply hung up the communication, threw the mechanical ball into the air again, watched it flutter and re-suspended, and asked the officer: "When was the first clearing program set?"
The officer hesitated, "Thirty minutes will be enough for everyone to evacuate."
"knew."
Qin Zhilu strode towards Zhu Tao and paused as he passed by An Yu, "Let's get together."
An Yu followed and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with Putao?"
"Zhu Tao has an innate sense of responsibility for plants. Although he has always been docile and it is almost impossible to go against the decisions of the top management and the Black Tower, this matter has touched his bottom line." The look between Qin Zhilu's eyebrows was still there. Calmly, there didn’t seem to be too many surprises, "Perhaps you can understand that at that time, only 1% of the people in Area 53 were deformed, but Shangfeng decided to eliminate all the remaining undistorted humans and asked Ling Qiu, who reported all this, to evacuate .”
An Yu was stunned for a moment.
Qin Zhilu raised his eyebrows, "Still can't understand?"
"Yes, I can." An Yu pursed his lips slightly, "Sir, can you let 1% go? Next time, just use a different number as an example."
Qin Zhilu paused speechlessly, "For those who don't know, I thought you were permanently..."
"Please." An Yu immediately begged in a low voice, "Stop talking."
"..."
Zhu Tao had seen them a long time ago, but never looked over.
Tang Feng stood beside him, silent for a long time, and raised his hand to gently hold his shoulders.
Zhu Tao frowned, and his eyes suddenly turned red. He looked up at Tang Feng and said tremblingly: "Sir, can you..."
The second half of the sentence "Can it be possible" was not spoken.
He seemed to know that he couldn't beg, his eyes fluctuated for a long time, and he just buried his head in Tang Feng's arms and sobbed.
Qin Zhilu went over and asked Tang Feng, "What are you persuading?"
Tang Feng held Zhu Tao's head and looked at the barren soil grid in the distance, "I don't want to persuade you."
He squatted down and whispered gently to the person in his arms: "Putao, as a law-abiding person, the commander has no position to dissuade Shangfeng from destroying this place."
In An Yu's impression, Tang Feng was a man of few words. Although he is no longer an officer, he still retains the sharpness of an elite officer in his words and deeds.
But at this moment, the man's eyes were also red. He pursed his lips tightly for a long time before letting go and said hoarsely: "As a person, I can't bear to dissuade you from coexisting with this museum."
Live and die together.
An Yu looked at Zhu Tao, who was huddled in Tang Feng's arms, in shock.
The hugged body was obviously docile, but it revealed determination.
"But you have to know." Tang Feng's voice was low and soft, and he gently rubbed Zhu Tao's hair. "This place is too close to Area 93, so the energy that can be used is limited. No one knows if there are other things gestating here. Once a bad seed exists, a moderate amount of energy release has a probability of catalyzing distortion, and as the only high genetic entropy creature left, you are likely to be fused with the remaining things."
He paused for a moment, then continued stroking for a long time, "When the second wave of cleaning is launched, it will no longer be the lawful ones who are killed."
An Yu was completely stunned. He looked at Zhu Tao being held in Tang Feng's arms and couldn't imagine that crazy decision.
He also couldn't understand the indulgence revealed in Tang Feng's words.
"I know." Zhu Tao broke out of Tang Feng's arms and murmured: "I just... feel that I am incompetent."
He looked at the desolate and strange wreckage in front of him and smiled bitterly, "Humans have ruled the food chain for thousands of years. In order to maximize their value to humans, every animal and every seed follows their regulations. Survive and reproduce. Since the weak have given up their dignity and freedom, in exchange, they should be protected by the strong." His voice was very soft, but firm and aggressive. "But in order to reduce risks, humans must be one step ahead of disasters. , preventively destroy them, shouldn’t we be ashamed of our incompetence and despicability?”
The museum with its closed dome was dead silent amidst the wind in the snowfield.
People looked directly at the young man sitting on the corpse, and no one said a word.
Zhu Tao stood up and kicked away the woman's body that was fused with the steel bars, revealing a small grid underneath.
There is a metal card inserted in the soil, with the species information originally stored in the grid engraved on it.
[GR-P1104: Angiosperms - Dicotyledons - Rhamnales - Vitaceae - Vitis genus]
【Autumn Grapes】
"I'm sorry, unless I really see the seeds here germinating and growing super abnormalities, I can't stand by and watch them be preventively destroyed." Zhu Tao pinched the card, lowered his head and whispered softly: "The Lawful One is just an artificial person. It’s just a title, have you guys forgotten that I’m actually just a grape?”
Preventive destruction.
An Yu suddenly felt frightened in his heart.
He turned back in astonishment, his gaze passing over the soil grid covered by the large swath of strange corpses.
He almost forgot that he was also a guy who was decided to carry out preventive execution.
But he was lucky that his executioner gave him a chance to survive.
He subconsciously looked to his side, and Qin Zhilu was staring at him, his black eyes still seeming to understand everything.
Qin Zhilu turned to Zhu Tao and said in a deep voice: "Tao Tao, the decision to go up to the peak is completely correct. Considering human beings is the meaning of the Black Tower's existence. If you want to blame, you can only blame the weak ones who are destined to be the first to suffer disasters. Crushed by wheels.”
Zhu Tao's eyes flickered, "You..."
"Fortunately -" Qin Zhilu interrupted him and continued to stare at An Yu, "These weak guys seem to have a chance to prove that they are harmless."
As he spoke, his tone suddenly softened and he sighed, "And they don't need to do anything. They don't need to struggle painfully or explore themselves. They just need to wait for a result."
Zhu Tao was stunned and said: "What do you mean, you can do something..."
Before he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly fell on An Yu beside Qin Zhilu.
Not far away, the recorder suspended in the air simultaneously turned its camera towards An Yu.
An Yu's back was turned to him, and the fingers hanging by his side seemed to be flexing and stretching inadvertently.
A familiar sense of oppression came quietly, but it was more powerful and unpredictable than Zhu Tao remembered. He was stunned for a while and murmured: "The mission of the orphanage is over. Has An Yu awakened a new ability?"
No one answered.
Dingfeng asked in the channel: "What do you want to do?"
Before he finished speaking, on the big screen of the Black Tower, the completely chaotic soil of the museum was suddenly broken.
All the busy decision-makers in front of the screen stopped what they were doing at the same time.
Halfway around the world, in the completely destroyed museum land, endless seeds burst out of the ground.
Fragile stems grow tenaciously in the wind and snow. Branches, leaves, petals, fruits... trees take root downwards, bushes bear fruits, and layers of petals are blown into the wind. The down is trembling, and some seeds have been happily sprinkled into the new soil.
The smell of mixed plants and earth covered the stench of the ground.
