Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

"I'm really sorry for what happened last night, due to my negligence!"

9:13 am

The streets were full of pedestrians, many of whom were listening to Locke's video conference and watching reporters reporting on the ground in the wind and sand of the barrier area.

"This damn fat guy."

Someone cursed, and many people began to discuss it, because the tragedy in the experimental base in the barrier area that happened in the early hours of last night had been made public at 8 o'clock this morning, and Locke did not say this at first matter, but to express an apology to the Hillman family for faulty intelligence that led Alpha to take reckless actions against the Hillman family.

Locke also stated that he and Alpha would accept the punishment according to the internal regulations of the administrative department and take a one-year salary reduction as punishment. However, this matter is insignificant to many people because everyone is more concerned about starting at 8 o'clock. special report program.

Some workers who survived and were still in the hospital described the situation at that time. The sudden attack was simply unprepared and ultimately resulted in a large number of deaths and injuries.

Many people looked at the situation on the screen. The experimental base that reporters reported a few months ago has now been completely destroyed. However, some people still expressed doubts because the impression given to all citizens by the Business Department is that of combat effectiveness. He is much stronger than ordinary people, but why can't he even deal with this situation?

The explanation given by the Operations Department was that due to the special geographical environment of the barrier area and the fact that the communication equipment of the Eastern Guard Station had some malfunctions and was undergoing maintenance, the Eastern Guard Station did not receive a rescue signal immediately after the experimental base was attacked. , Section 3 still released some specially processed impact information, but they kept saying that it was because they had been relatively stable in recent months, so they had neglected it, and there were a series of problems with military expenditures, etc.

But after seeing the scene, many reporters at the scene directly inferred that a large number of mutants should have attacked the experimental base last night, because there were few traces of gunfire exchanges, a lot of bullets were dropped at the scene, and those who were killed Various signs from the breached metal house indicate that this experimental base was attacked by a large number of mutant criminals.

The Business Department did not respond directly to such inferences and speculations, but said that all the details of the matter would be announced at a later date, and mutants were once again pushed to the forefront.

Some people began to call for stricter control over mutants. With news reports and Locke's televised speech, voices in the city began to gather together again.

"It's a mutant!"

On the street, someone exclaimed. A burly man wearing a thick coat looked a little painful. He pressed on the roof of a car parked on the street. He seemed a little tired. At this time, everyone around him Staying away from the mutant, he eagerly planned to continue walking forward, but for some reason, he felt an inexplicable dizziness and the mutant stumbled to the ground.

Someone screamed, and soon the street became chaotic. Many people began to pour into the alley. Several members of Section 5 on patrol had already taken out the restraint guns used to deal with mutants. This was a middle-level street. , several members of Section 5 on patrol had just walked out of the School of Behavioral Science less than a month ago, and they all looked at the mutant who was still breathing on the ground with some fear.

"Arrest him quickly."

A woman shouted, and one of the male officers leaned over, while several officers had already begun to call the people from the special management team.

"Sir, you."

The mutant got up from the ground and looked at the people around him who were moving away in fear, and at the department staff who had already taken out their weapons and pointed them at him.

"Am I breaking the law?"

"Sir, are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"

The mutant roared angrily.

"I've been working since last night. Are you feeling comfortable? I'm not sick, and I'm not some exotic beast."

Within a few minutes, people from the special management team came over, and several people came over in less than 3 minutes. They are now on call 24 hours a day, because there have been more and more incidents of mutants going berserk in society recently. .

"Let's take you back sir."

A woman from the special management team walked over and said, "The mutant looked around and saw a management vehicle on the street came over. He got in angrily. No matter where he went recently, he didn't want to be seen by anyone. Many mutants have begun to cause some trouble.

When this incident happened this morning, most people did not pay attention to the core point of the incident. The experimental base was destroyed. This experimental base, which cost a lot of money and took a lot of people's efforts, was destroyed. Instead, many people became more concerned about mutants. Nowadays, many people feel that they are becoming more and more unsafe because there are many mutants around them.

These mutants are like bombs and may detonate at any time. This is the reason why many people are worried. Recently, nearly 100 people have died due to the sudden rampage of mutants.

Not only low-level mutants, but also some high-level mutants who have already obtained evaluation levels. Many people are unwilling to hire mutants. Under the influence of the overall social atmosphere, most employees make the right choice. choose.

As a result, only some places that need manpower at night will hire mutants, because there are fewer people at night, and the mutants will not endanger too many people when they go berserk.

The public's dissatisfaction with mutants completely erupted this morning, but some workers who survived from the camp kept silent about the mutant issue. When asked whether a large number of mutants had attacked the experimental base, Finally, most workers answered that they were just ordinary barrier zone criminals.

This incident is actually very obvious. Congress did not want to push mutants to the forefront, so it issued a hush order to the workers. However, judging from the heavy losses suffered at the scene and in the business department, all fools knew that it could only be mutants. , possesses such powerful destructive power.

Because the number of members of Section 3 stationed there was more than 500, and there were still three directors present, but it still caused such a large number of casualties, and some voices against mutants continued to appear.

The argument that mutants will become a huge hidden threat to the city in the future began to appear in the city, at a speed that many people in the business department did not expect.

"Did you know? A buddy of mine is from Section 3. They arrested some criminals during an operation in the Alatan Ula Mountains last night. There is a huge military base there."

"It's true, don't lie to me."

Two men sitting in the tavern were discussing what happened last night. According to the information released by Section 3, after tracking these criminals last night, they had found their gathering place, and the gods had personally taken action and eliminated them. The criminals in that gathering place.

"I'm not going to lie to you. My buddy came to this area when he came back last night. I drank with him last night and asked me to help him pick up his younger brother home today. He told me what happened there, and... You know, it is said that it is the Angus family who secretly supports the criminals in the barrier area."

"Isn't that too ridiculous?"

The two men continued to talk in low voices.

"Don't really believe it, but don't tell others about this."

"But think about it, the Angus family has been very secretive these years, and I don't even know what they are doing behind the scenes."

When people in the city were talking about mutants with almost the same voice, a conspiracy theory began to spread in the city.

Just after 12 o'clock

In a large number of restaurants and bars, many people gathered were talking about the Angus family's support for the criminals wandering around the barrier area. Some people analyzed that it was because the orchard plan affected the Angus family's construction, so they secretly arranged it. The Guss want to kill this plan.

Some even said that Congress was looking for reasons and excuses for the failure of the experiment. There were different opinions, and the voices in the city gathered together in just a few hours.

"Sir, please register your identity. This is our new rule here."

At the door of a restaurant bar, the front desk manager smiled and saw that many people showed their ID cards after entering. Then he entered the restaurant without feeling suspicious, so he took out his ID card.

"Oh, sir, our place is full, so we can only ask you to move to another place."

The man at the door realized something immediately. After he took out his ID card, the front desk manager's attitude changed immediately because the man was a mutant.

"Isn't there still room over there?"

The man said something, and the manager smiled awkwardly.

"Would you like takeout?"

The man nodded in agreement, and the manager immediately ordered food for the mutant. Many of the recent violent incidents involving mutants occurred in restaurants.

Some stores with high traffic volume have begun to take measures to prevent mutant customers from entering the store, because most people think this is the most effective method.

"Sorry, fat brother!"

Alpha looked at all aspects of the current social news with a solemn expression. The two of them were in the office of the General Affairs Department. When Alpha woke up, Locke had already finished his televised speech. She originally wanted to give a televised speech tomorrow to tell the city He entered the Hillman family to investigate something, but now he has no chance.

"There's no need to say anything, Alpha. You should stay at home for a few days first. Now, basically, everyone is actively dealing with the issues in Section 5. You can go home to avoid the limelight for the time being. The external punishment I will give you is a suspension of pay." Suspended for 7 days."

Alpha hummed, and she saw that a news media had begun to report it. Sure enough, this message spread in the city. Although it was not directly specified which big family was behind the criminals' activities in the barrier area, it was so... There are several big families, and this rumor about the Angus family supporting the criminals in the barrier area will soon spread on a large scale in the city.

The thing Alpha was most worried about was about to happen. He hurriedly entered the Hillman family's underground research room last night and found nothing to make this incident difficult to contain.

"Eat Alpha quickly, and go back early after eating. When this rumor really starts to appear on a large scale, we will announce some of the investigation results last night and in the past few days. I will give a speech on TV at that time , that’s it.”

Alpha shook his head.

"It will never end. Rumors will continue to spread if they cannot be contained at the beginning."

After Alpha drank the soup, he quickly ate the food on the table and turned towards the window.

Locke looked solemnly at the eye-catching news headlines on the light and shadow panel.

Alpha fell to the ground, and she slowly walked up the steps of the square of the Congress Hall. A touch of sadness rose in her heart. Alpha knew very well that someone wanted to shake the foundation of the city. The Hillman family was obviously the most suspect, but there was no way. No evidence can be found, and the situation in the city is so chaotic now.

Alpha clenched her fists and walked up step by step. She wanted to go to Section 10 to find Noah, but now she could only use some unconventional methods. Alpha didn't want to sit still and wait for death, because she felt the danger. After Jean left, , this sense of crisis has always been lingering in Alpha's heart.

When Jean was still in the city, he would run around in many places every day, solving some cases alone, but now that Jean is no longer in the city, it is impossible for the other six gods to be like Jean. I just wander around the streets every day.

This is what Alpha is most worried about now. She quickly stepped onto the Capitol Square. The person standing in front of her was Deguna. Alpha looked at Deguna suspiciously.

"Where do you want to go little girl?"

"Go to Section 10 to find my boyfriend."

Deguna shook her head.

"You cannot use unconventional means. As long as there is a little problem, the current city will become very bad. The problems in the medical industry cannot be effectively solved yet. The problems in the 3rd department, the construction of your family The problems are all affecting the city’s overall economy, and coupled with the current problem of mutants, don’t do anything like a little girl.”

Alpha clenched her fists and looked at Deguna seriously.

“Someone wants to turn the city upside down.”

"We know that disrupting a city doesn't happen overnight."

Alpha moved forward again, but Deguna was already standing in front of her in an instant, and Alpha felt that his memory seemed to be dulled in an instant.

"You have become more and more violent recently, and your strength is in danger of losing control. Alpha, after Li Chu briefly fought with you last night, this was his most intuitive feeling. It is difficult for you to control your current strength. Now the number of alienated genes in your body should have exceeded 20,000. You are like a bomb that may explode at any time. How about you listen to my opinion as a teacher? Tang Rao will temporarily help you take care of the five subjects. "

Alpha shook his head.

"These are indeed the problems we are facing today, but what is the essential core of these problems!"

Deguna shook her head.

"The city must restore calm. I say it again, little girl, if you still insist, just give it a try."

Alpha has only one purpose in going to Section 10, which is to let Noah take out the most advanced underground material explorer in Section 10. Alpha plans to dig deep to find evidence of the Hillman family. Last night, he and Mo Xiaolan briefly talked on the phone. Mo Xiaolan suspected that there were some underground strongholds everywhere in the city, but they had not been discovered for the time being, because the city was very chaotic in the past. If anyone wanted to do something, in the chaotic city Some underground facilities could have been built in those years.

This is because when the Angus family was doing underground construction, they did find some basements on the line. Some may have been built during the war, but some seemed to have been built not too long ago, and from some construction lines Many traces of crime were found in the basement discovered online, and some people were even arrested for it.

"It's no use talking more, little girl, do you want to give it a try?"

Alpha became a little angry and clenched her fists.

"Calm down, everyone."

Tang Rao emerged from the darkness and walked over slowly.

"How old are you, Deguna, are you still a child?"

Deguna chuckled.

"To deal with such a disobedient little girl, giving her a lesson is the most effective way."

Tang Rao walked up to Deguna and pulled her away.

"Go back and rest for a month Alpha, I will temporarily help you take care of the 5 subjects."

"If we let things go like this, the situation will only get worse."

Alpha looked at Tang Rao blankly, and Tang Rao nodded.

"It is true that the problem is so serious now, but have you ever thought about Alpha, what would it be like if Jean came back from Mars?"

Tang Rao asked, and Alpha put away the angry look on his face for a moment.

"Let's take a walk together. I can tell you some things, but you have to promise me that you won't check the Hillman house again."

Alpha didn't nod or shake his head. She followed Tang Rao and walked away. Deguna sighed helplessly. Some things must be prepared in advance.

When the city develops to a certain stage, everything that was buried when the city was built in the past has begun to be exposed on a large scale. Sooner or later, these problems will burst out completely. This is the city. Deguna knows very well that there have been problems since ancient times. Since the beginning of human society, such confrontations and conflicts have continued uninterrupted and never stopped. This is what human beings are.

Deguna has been thinking about how to solve these problems since a long time ago, but unfortunately, I am afraid that humans will never be able to find a solution to the problem in their lifetime, and the only effective solutions are mechanization and memory modification.

This may be cruel to humans, but it allows humans to survive. Those complex and changeable human hearts will always burst out at a certain period of time, and these human hearts will eventually gather and tear the entire world apart from the inside. In human society, there is no effective solution to all this.

Last night, Deguna felt very relieved to see the choices made by the former students of Section 3. They did not make the worst choice, but made a decision that surprised Deguna.

If a brutal cleaning operation is carried out in the barrier area, every action of Section 3 will affect everything in the city in the next few years. In order to eliminate those criminals, more things may have to be invested, only tens of thousands A criminal wandering in the barrier area will make the overall operation of Section 3 extremely difficult.

Deguna also considered building a city wall in the northeast to block criminals, but when she thought about the past era, some countries also built walls to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country, but they all failed without exception. If social problems cannot be solved, The most acute internal contradiction is that no matter how high the wall is built, there is still no way to effectively eliminate many problems.

This has been repeated countless times in history. Deguna felt sad in her heart at this time, because she knew very well that although such a delaying approach could contain the criminals in the barrier area to a certain extent, it did not even require a large-scale Cleaning up will have a very good effect. The criminals wandering in the barrier area have been hungry for too long.

In such a desperate situation, as long as people catch a little warm light, they will show kindness. This was the case in the agricultural experimental base. Ye Chunwang had just given a little warmth to the criminals operating around them, and they started They gathered together and began to actively help everything in the agricultural experimental base, and even made friends with the people in the agricultural experimental base. Even when the base was attacked, criminals would help inform them.

Deguna also heard that when the massacre started, some criminals near the experimental base came to help, and some even died. Deguna knew very well that these were human beings.

Human beings always like warm creatures very much. Love, courage and hope are the best spiritual food for human beings. However, many times these things are completely indifferent or even buried by human society. This is also sad for human beings. place.

Looking at the two people walking away, Deguna smiled helplessly. She knew exactly what Tang Rao wanted to do.

"Do you know why we sent Jean to Mars?"

Alpha looked at Tang Rao doubtfully, and then asked.

"Why? Isn't it because Mars is the most likely place for human habitation besides the planet under our feet according to past data?"

"This is just one of them."

Tang Rao said as he took out a pack of cigarettes and handed one to Alpha.

"There's one more thing you have to know to be Alpha, and that is that there is a very high probability that there are humans living on Mars."

Alpha's eyes widened for a moment, looking at Tang Rao in disbelief.

"As early as the middle of the 21st century, there was once a ship full of outstanding people selected from most of the human race at that time, riding the best spaceship of mankind to Mars, and it may take 60 years or more for them to arrive. Above, most of them will become old people upon arrival, and they will be old people with children and grandchildren.”

Alpha looked at Tang Rao in disbelief, and Tang Rao continued.

"So if Jean arrives on Mars, he will first look for these people who have already gone to Mars. If they really survive, Jean will rush back immediately. Next, we may start the mechanization era and fully strive to break through this planet. Make preparations, so the mechanization era is necessary, and there is not much time left for humans.”

Alpha swallowed.

"What's going on? Is there anything else you haven't told us?"

"Not just because of this planet, but because of ourselves. You should know that we cannot die."

Alpha nodded. This is why gods are called gods. They have very high intelligence and knowledge, as well as unparalleled power, including eternal life and an immortal body. These are all things that only gods can have. of.

"Our power is expanding Alpha day by day, and it will never stop expanding. You can imagine it as a kind of material energy that is constantly proliferating, and we don't know where the limit is. With the increasing power, we can accompany Humanity will not last long, and our only way is to choose to leave humanity, otherwise this power will destroy humanity."

Alpha looked at Tang Rao with a solemn expression. Indeed, in countless battles with teachers, Alpha had never thought that he could defeat any of the seven teachers, because no matter how hard he trained, every time he fought against them, Their real power is still far stronger than themselves.

"You should have seen those crystals. They are the crystals of our energy, which are constantly separated from our bodies. The greater the mass of the substance, the stability will not be very good. You should know this truth."

Alpha swallowed.

"I'm very afraid that our power will cause some problems in an instant, so over the years we have only been able to adapt to life without thinking about some problems, because we also have feelings, and they will fluctuate with our emotions, and our emotions Fluctuations affect power.”

Tang Rao said, grabbing Alpha's hand and putting her hand on his chest. Alpha was a little surprised, but soon Alpha understood and looked at Tang Rao in astonishment.

"No different than a dead person, right?"

Alpha nodded slightly.

"Indeed, this is the first time that there is no heartbeat."

"This is our body Alpha, the machine that suppresses our power. You should have seen it. That thing is actually a device that can completely stop our heart, and our heart is like an engine of power. If it starts to move , the strength will only continue to increase as time goes by, and those power crystals squeezed out of the body by our own strength will slowly return to our bodies."

Alpha retracted his hand and looked at Tang Rao with a serious look on his face.

"Then you can actually hand over the city to humans, maybe."

"Don't have any delusions, Alpha. As long as you can't control the human heart, human society will one day collapse because of the human heart. This thing cannot be controlled by external forces. It is the same no matter what kind of society. These things It will be distorted little by little in the development of society, and the distorted people's hearts will eventually converge into a certain voice, and when these voices gather together, they will produce power, and this power is enough to destroy many things."

Alpha nodded, she could understand what Tang Rao said.

"Besides, this planet is no longer suitable for human habitation. Now the planet we are on is like a huge cage, constantly swallowing up the light from the outside, and the light may never be able to penetrate the clouds. If humans want to To have a future, we can only embark on the path of mechanization in advance. National mechanization is our vision for the future. And if we want everyone to be able to leave here, we need a very stable society, so that we can have the time and energy to start the next step. The door of an era.”

Alpha turned around and walked slowly with a cigarette in his mouth.

"I know, I will go back and rest for a while."

Tang Rao seemed relieved.

"By the way, Tang Rao, spend this time getting along well with Jill!"