Out of the cage

The end stages of the third phase of the conflict are extremely boring.

Because, the genetic communities going south have nothing to do.

If they congregate, without the support of modern logistics, the lack of food and water in the location will make the movements of the various gene groups even more sluggish. And if they spread out wider, Wei Keng will destroy them one by one more quickly.

keep status quo? These colony groups are now in collapse retreat.

It's so boring, just like the self-help of human city-states that travelers from the main world can see in timelines.

In those timelines, human beings resisted after Pandora covered the whole world. Each time, one or two people, or a small group of people used the remaining patterns of the past to reach the limit with great heart, and even surpassed the limit of the past. The misty hope of others, but finally faced with the future that can never be hindered, fell into powerlessness! Repeating this time and time again, as the smell of life is getting weaker and weaker, on the contrary, the smell of rancidity is getting stronger and stronger.

What life needs is a breakthrough! Dying struggle is to go all out to try all possibilities, not the helplessness of "doing everything possible" in the dark manga in the 21st century.

When Wei Keng's seventh interlude ended, he returned unharmed with all his equipment and luggage, and when he "coincidentally" passed by Ji'an City, Wei Keng looked at the fog spreading around the city walls, and he was still lifeless. The bleak life radiation of the people of the city-state.

Wei Keng: "Death? It doesn't seem to be unacceptable. The key is to have hope. Some people's death is lighter than a feather, and some people's death is heavier than Mount Tai."

Three days after Wei Keng's army returned, a tractor team from the Pearl River Basin drove to the city of Ji'an for a commercial trade.

At the end of the war, there were 347 human beings on this plane who followed Wei Keng to fight and undertook support tasks. In order to resist possible genetic radiation contamination, they were basically injected with Wei Keng's blood. There are no side effects as imagined, such as becoming the same as Wei Keng, or thinking being controlled by Wei Keng.

More and more local people in the gathering place are beginning to be affected by the group following effect.

These courageous young people who want to hold a gun and walk freely in this land choose to try to get a needle. As for Wei Keng, because of insufficient self-production, he began to ration quotas.

When Wei Keng tightened his blood output, it actually caused a wave of pursuit, which made Wei Keng laugh dumbfounded.

On December 11, 134 of the Pandora Era, the morning sun made the dewdrops on the city wall reflect a little crystal.

The tractor convoy from the south stopped only outside the city wall, and the goods began to be hoisted into the city, but the trade team from the Pearl River was not all put into the city wall.

And Zeng Jiakan, the head of trade who led the team this time, returned to his hometown full of enthusiasm, looking forward to being greeted as a hero.

However, a few hours after he entered the iron gate, he walked out of the black and gray city. When he returned, the excitement had disappeared and was replaced by disappointment.

In the city, he felt a bunch of eyes that "looked at other people".

This once-hot-blooded young man couldn't think about it: he obviously risked being melted by the genetic community to save this city, and in this city, those colleagues who once gave orders to him and praised how brave he was to go out of the city, now One by one whispered behind their backs: This person has become a slave to the mind control of the same-faced people in the south.

The Zeng Family Magazine wanted to yell at them: "Have you forgotten the sense of persecution of death when the genetic community is overwhelmed!"

The cry in his heart was not heard by the people in Ji'an City.

But Wei Keng heard it! Well, this is the first abnormal phenomenon that Wei Keng was able to identify after the blood injection.

The Wei Keng group attaches great importance to it: this proves that other individuals and themselves (Wei Keng) in the same life field still have special effects.

Zeng Jiakan may not be the first one, because before that, I could always inadvertently hear the inner voices of some people's intense psychological activities, but at that time Wei Keng was not sure if it was his own auditory hallucinations. And now for sure.

Of course, Wei Keng couldn't hear everything.

Wei Keng has never heard of some instinctive and meaningless psychological activities, such as whether to eat fish or eggs in today's world, such low-level desires.

It's not even an active skill. Wei Keng can hear it only when some individuals' emotions are particularly complicated and can't help themselves. The current phenomenon may be the convergence effect of biome nodes.

What Wei Keng didn't know was that in the high-dimensional space bubble, in Bai Linglu's current records, this kind of situation has been recorded as "The Formation of Human Gene Community", and Wei Keng and the world's traditional node creatures are separated. elements are compared.

After this incident happened, Wei Keng was also very concerned about it while he was on a plane mission.

Wei Keng, who was afraid of "community death", began to pay attention to whether his sometimes inner dialogue could be heard by them.

Of course, this is not possible. Bai Linglu explained in the report that the information processing ability of node creatures is stronger than that of other individuals. Although the information relationship within the Wei Keng group is a regional block, it is the center compared to the newly recruited individuals from the outside.

These peripheral individuals in the Zengjiakan do not have the central information processing ability of the Wei Keng cluster, so they cannot receive the complex psychological activities of the Wei Keng cluster.

As for Wei Keng, as if nothing had happened to the outside world, he actually tested it secretly with people from his own plane, and confirmed the same result. The "group information" between each individual will not be leaked. So Mimi also quietly hid the fact that "I can read the minds of other people" from the outside world.

Hiding is hiding, but Wei Keng still thinks about the words he heard.

At this time, Wei Keng responded empathetically to Zeng Jiaban's question of resentment towards Ji'an City.

Wei Keng: Those who are high in the city and use literature to describe and express the feeling of the city really do not have a deep feeling for this war, because in the war with the community, they are in the leadership class. Push out unimportant people as a sacrificial shell, and you, Zeng Jiakan, take the initiative to meet the storm. They feel that they can't repay your kindness, and they don't want to feel guilty about being a despicable person, so they deliberately treat you as nothing. Pain, tool man without emotion, social shell.

But after thinking about what he could say, Wei Keng didn't confide a word to Zeng's family magazine.

Wei Keng is not used to preaching, and preaching is equal to promise. So this answer is actually a self-reminder, reminding myself how to use some practical performance to deal with the questions of people like Zeng Jiakan.

No, some people in Ji'an City were picked up by the negotiators at the Pearl River Gathering Area to pick up a group of wounded. These numb and confused people who left the city were consumables for this battle of defending the city.

Because their body tissues were destroyed by a large amount of genetic radiation, part of their skin was covered with animal hair, and their hands even lost part of their human nerve functions and turned into sharp claws. So I was disgusted by everyone in the city, and I hated their abnormal life phenomena, which would interfere with me.

Anyway, let's be honest, they're pretty ugly! If there were no prerequisites, if Wei Keng met him, he would definitely walk around like meeting a smelly beggar on the street.

However, after answering quietly in his heart: Wei Keng pinched his nose and decided that they should live, and he should give these people a hand.

...

When the upper level of Ji'an City stood on the high tower, it was confirmed that the fog in the surrounding jungle dissipated, the traces of the herd of beasts disappeared, and the security crisis was resolved. I hurriedly came to the city's ancestral hall to thank my ancestors for their blessings.

When the trade group in Zhujiaojiao proposed to transfer labor to offset the cost of the rescue, and the specific plan did not mind some wounded people irradiated by the genetic community, the ruling council of Ji'an City hurriedly transferred more than 4,000 A mutant was driven out of the city.

These people with serious mutations were driven out of the city and heard that they were going to be sent to monsters like Wei Keng. They were extremely panicked. Even in despair, some symbiotic microbial communities on their bodies broke away from the nucleus and became The virus was infected, causing extensive coughing and vomiting and diarrhea.

Regarding this matter, Wei Keng sighed. Whenever such hysteria occurs in human society, religion is often needed as an agent of dependence to fill the vacancy in the heart. Now before Wei Keng is an opportunity to become a god! But Wei Keng refused in his heart.

Wei Keng clustered out a working group to be in charge of counseling, and started chatting with these people.

Tell stories to ten-year-old children, tell stories in idioms, and tell about human life before the Great Destruction.

Talk to the women and ask them how they should thread their mending clothes and if they need some sewing machines.

Talk to men about farming. Food can grow in the soil, houses can be built by burning bricks, and diseases can be cured.

Before returning to the temporary resettlement base in the Pearl River, the four thousand people had almost stabilized their emotions, and there was no objection to the matter of injecting Wei Keng's blood for life radiation therapy. In the past, Ji'an City publicized the warning that Wei Keng was a heterogeneous species. It is now being let down slowly.

Injecting blood is very normal in city-states! It is the normal state to resist the radiation of life from the outside world. In Ji'an City, if a person encounters the erosion of demonic breath (gene pollution), he can actually be cured. In this regard, these excluded people also yearn for such treatment in their hearts.

After so many days of chatting, Wei Keng gradually dispelled their rejection and began to guide them to accept his own treatment. When Wei Keng proposed the treatment plan, he could see a trace of hesitation on their faces. But in the end? It seems that one after another reluctantly filled the list.

How to treat the slight impact caused by species chaos gene radiation in Ji'an city? Just inject the blood of a hundred normal people! It's just that the blood of every normal person is one hundred coins in the market price! Yes, it is the nickel-iron one-dollar steel coin in the civilized era. When capital assists feudalism in management, there is no possibility that the survival rights of the middle and lower classes will be taken care of by public services.

I was poor and wanted to survive, so in the end I was forced to accept a plan that I would not have chosen before. It's like when there is a famine, you will eventually choose to eat kaolin.

...

On December 31, 134 of the Pandora Era, one week after the southward migrants from Ji'an City were resettled,

Wei Keng drew out tube after tube of blood and injected them into these 4,000 people, so that Wei Keng's life radiation dropped by 1% in a short period of time. But the recovery was done after a few days.

After taking a tube of blood, it was about five days of discomfort for Wei Keng. But for those 4,000 people it was equivalent to recreation. These mutants found that they were injected with Wei Keng's blood, and the effect was almost visible to the naked eye. Animal hair on the skin fell off, and some people's tail vertebrae shrank back, causing them to be seriously disfigured. The sharp teeth poking out of their lips, After being pulled out, normal teeth started growing back a few days later.

Of course, after one month, no one will assimilate with Wei Keng in appearance.

It's just that this gene injection made Wei Keng very serious about certain changes.

Wei Keng: If it develops into a situation similar to a gene community, then it is divided into an inner circle and an outer circle. The inner circle is your own group, and the outer circle is those human groups who have begun to communicate with your genes.

This kind of assimilation may have a lot of benefits, but Wei Keng is alert to the possible disadvantages! Human beings as a species should have a certain diversity. Now Wei Keng himself is unwilling to let everyone become like him.

Wei Keng: "System, is this possible?"

System: "Your genetic community effect is already at the stage of radiation, and a large number of other species around you have been emptied by you. As the top species of the highest food chain, ecological resources begin to be under the control of a species, then, it will be under the control of this species. Resonance is formed under the gene activity, you should be the core, and your blood injection just speeds up the process."

Wei Keng: "Really? What about the disadvantages?"

System: "There are no disadvantages. As long as the population spreads large enough, there will always be mutations. You don't have to worry about the diversity of human genes. Because apart from you, the cohesion of human beings has always been unable to make genes reach clusters of similar clones. degree of convergence."

But Wei Keng asked a more heartbreaking question: "Then, will my life radiation field evolve to a higher level, and then affect the human groups around me!"

Wei Keng has a very repulsive question in his heart: I can already hear the voices of some people today, so one day in the future, will I send one-way messages to others. Even in the future, you can directly control its thinking and will by yourself!

After the system has been running for a few seconds, the reply given is "lack of data".

...

The data is indeed lacking, but there is a reference in this world, but Bai Linglu will not point this vicious reference to Wei Keng.

In Yucheng in the north, the rolling Yangtze River is still rushing against the vines blocking the river.

In the three-dimensional mountain city, a large head hanging from the eye-catching skyscraper turned again.

Now this giant is connected to all the priests at the top of the bright tower.

At the top of this skyscraper, the tiled floor is still preserved, but there are green veins like blood vessels all over the tiles. Every inch has been wiped clean, making one think that the owner of this place is a clean freak.

Every priest here has a seat made of vines, but no one dares to sit down now. Because the mood of the head spirits is not good enough to allow them to sit down.

Shouling: "The battle in the south is over, Qi Shengxun is dead!"

From a human point of view, after Qi Shengxun was devoured, his brain and thinking were shuffled and he died, but in the community, there is no emotional and thinking self, and everything belongs to the mistress. Only the genes represent the self.

Qi Shengxun's genetic influence has disappeared, and his death means that a branch of the head spirit has been completely wiped out.

A priest at the end crossed his hands and reported in awe of Shouling: "Dragon Blood of Dongting Lake suffered heavy losses during this trip to the south. Lord Shouling, may I ask you to unite this incompetent scum with your will?" .”

There have always been struggles between gene groups and gene groups. For example, the group that Wei Keng drove away from Guangdong in the second stage went north to Hunan, and was swallowed up by the Dongting group, and now the Dongting group is almost completely wiped out by Wei Keng. , only one-fifth of the total number of lives came back, but in fact, the node creatures were repeatedly destroyed, and the scale of life radiation was not one out of ten, which was a real heavy blow. So this is indeed a good opportunity for annexation for the Yucheng community.

However, Shouling did not give priority to discussing this topic now, but continued to have unfinished doubts.

Shouling: "What's on the south side, near the sea!" She continued to ask her nearest priests, and at this time, the anxiety of the super big head was shared by these nearest priests.

The conversation continued, but several vines casually appeared in the hall, dragging several priests into the cave in the big tree. The thoughts and consciousness of these priests were swallowed by the head spirit.

And the head spirit seems to have nothing happened, as if it just swallowed a few breads, just like a boring human being talking to his bread, eating while talking.

And the priests who are "Little Buns" have no fear at all, they are all plain. It's perfectly normal to feel that "I am bread if I have no other function" to be swallowed.

[Such a scene, so plain! Such an understanding is enough to make people in the civilized age horrified! Therefore they are not human beings, and have never regarded the human beings of the city-state as their own kind. 】

Long Ximin: "Mistress, I still want to go there."

Shouling: "You? Do you think you can still communicate with him, oh, he is very cruel!"

Long Ximin: "He has inherited the most brutal male gene in human beings, with a tendency to destroy, but he may have some desires."

Shouling thought for a while, and a five-meter-diameter flower bone extended from the giant tree, wrapping Long Ximin. During the process of the petals clenching, the inner petals of the petals popped out fleshy spines, piercing Long Ximin's body inch by inch. There was no blood radiating, but the flesh fused together, and the flower bud shrank completely. The head spirit put the flowers back on the treetops fifty meters away from him, entangled around the branches of the giant tree.

Shouling: "She will come out in fifty days. Next, let's talk about the Dongting community. I don't want to drink a river with this group of hairy horns now."