Ember Gun

  Chapter 498 Evolution and Sublimation

"go ahead!"

  The man stood in the bow of the ship, roaring loudly, and as his roar resounded, the iron-clad ship under his feet began to accelerate gradually, accompanied by the restless boiler, stirring up heavy waves, and splitting the sea like a sharp sword.

This was the fourth day of the Epidemic Doctor’s sailing. At full speed, he judged that his position was probably close to the waters of Inervig, and he would be able to escape from the seas of Inervig in about ten days. Arrived on the open high seas between Inervig and the Viking nations.

In recent years, human technology has been advancing rapidly, but there has not been much progress in navigation positioning. Once you step into the vast sea, you can only rely on personal experience, sea charts, compasses, and sextants. And so on, and because of this, all countries have very weak control over the sea, and the epidemic doctors are not worried about what they will encounter.

   "Captain, I will leave these to you."

   Enjoying a breeze on the sea, the epidemic doctor shouted at the tall man on the side, and the man nodded at him and commanded the other sailors.

The epidemic doctor had no experience in voyages. For this reason, Lawrence got him a reliable captain. It is said that he was originally a member of the Gallunaro military, but after Lawrence appeared, he became a member of his Orthodox Church. The same is true. Possess secret blood.

  Before entering the cabin, the epidemiologist glanced at the sea behind the ship, and several such armored ships with artillery followed them. The armors were covered with rivets and the steam turbines roared.

  All this is thanks to Lawrence’s funding. Without him, the epidemic doctor seems to be really unable to form such a fleet.

  Entering the dim cabin, the epidemic doctor then pushed open the door of his room. Life at sea is boring and boring, and people often say that encountering pirates or something, the probability is actually quite small.

  This vast sea is like a labyrinth. If you don’t take the main channel, it is difficult for you to encounter another ship. This is also a region that has not been completely conquered by humans. It is unpredictable and no one knows its thoughts.

  The cabin shook slightly, and even the experimental flasks placed on the table shook with them, but the epidemic doctor had already fixed it in advance, and even the bottle mouths were tightly sealed one by one.

  In this remodeled room, there is a larger space at the other end. There is an operating table on which a person is fixed. Because there is no light to reflect all this, it is not clear his specific life and death.

Suddenly the ship shook violently and even shook the cabin a few times. This seemed to have awakened the person on the operating table. He made a meaningless whimper, but the sound was very slight. In a blink of an eye, he was caught out of the porthole. Covered by the sound of ocean waves.

  The epidemic doctor didn’t seem to notice this either. He stretched out and walked slowly to the desk.

Life on the sea is very boring, but it is also relatively speaking. In this small space, many people don’t know what to do, so they are restless, but the epidemic doctor is different. Whenever there is such time, he is very happy. In this way, the epidemic doctor can temporarily pull himself out of the world and immerse himself in the study of something.

  Such as his academic...if this thing is really academic.

Open the drawer, there is a note with a black cover hidden in it. Look carefully, under this note, there are more notes with the same black cover, but the other notes look weather-beaten. The surface is covered with scratches and the spine is slightly cracked.

The epidemic doctor considers himself a doctor and a scholar. With his extremely long vitality, in order to pursue the true meaning of life and the so-called truth, he, like other scholars, has carried out countless studies, and has also saved a large amount of research. Experiment records and notes.

  This is his latest notebook. If nothing else, it will probably be the last one. Thinking of this, the Epidemic Doctor was feeling a little excited, touching the brand new surface of the note.

  The sound of the waves outside the window was constant, and gradually dark clouds were covered with heavy rain. It seemed that there was a rainstorm, but these did not affect the mood of the epidemic doctor. The knowledge he longed for existed at the end of this channel, waiting for him to dig.

  Turning over the notes to find the latest page. The Epidemiologist was going to continue writing with his previous thoughts, but for some reason he suddenly remembered the conversation between Lawrence and himself.

  While helping himself to install these experimental equipment on the ship, Lawrence asked himself, if the truth really exists at the end of this channel, then what is the meaning of the behavior pursued by the epidemic doctor now? His answer is at the end, as long as you get there, why continue to work hard?

  The Epidemic Doctor smiled and did not speak. He knew very well that a soldier like Lawrence would naturally have difficulty understanding his own thoughts. His willingness to let himself leave to pursue the truth was already extremely tolerant.

Of course he will have all the answers at the end of this channel, but that is only the result after all. What epidemic doctors are more willing to enjoy is the process, the kind of racking brains, unscrupulous means, and using **** and cruel experiments to prove one after another. Another clue until the truth is reached.

  This is like a jigsaw puzzle. The epidemic doctor is eager for the final answer, but he is also fascinated by the process of pursuit.

  "Where should I start?"

  The epidemic doctor pondered for a while, and seemed to have thoughts, and began to write.

"Sometimes I think that what I think of as "evolution" may be very similar to what alchemists think of as "sublimation." A kind of "upgrade" to the degree.

  Alchemists believe that through mysterious alchemy, mortal matter can be sublimated to a higher existence, just like an ordinary person leaps into a god.

  Well, I have to admit that this description is indeed a bit exaggerated, but from the alchemy I know, it is true. They kill the metal and then forge a stronger metal.

  So how about evolution? "

  The epidemic doctor stopped writing. This is a question he has been studying for nearly a hundred years, but so far he can't find the answer, or he has found the answer, but it seems to be the wrong answer.

"I have always felt that humans and apes are so similar. Do we mean that we are'upgraded' from apes? In some way we don't know yet, we are'upgraded' from one individual to another completely different individual. Of course These are just descriptions, I am not a literati, and my words are dry."

  The epidemic doctor often writes such things in his notes, as if he is going to read this note to someone.

"The first thing that inspired me was the **** Black Death. Humans died without resistance to this disease, but I also heard that certain creatures have the power to resist it, and the disease cannot affect them at all. From the beginning, I was thinking about whether human beings can become like them.

After that, I met a monster. This is really a perfect creature... If they can be called creatures, they are essentially human beings, one after another being eroded and twisted, but in this mysterious twisting power Next, humans have become almost perfect creatures.

From the point of view of reproduction, the way monsters produce the same kind is the weird erosion and spreading, and it also has a terrible memetic effect. What a powerful force this is. Perhaps a human error will cause all humans to become Existence like a monster.

The monsters themselves also have sufficiently strange characteristics. From what I have discovered so far, they will change according to the environment. They will grow scales when facing powerful enemies, and they will use illusions to interfere with enemies that cannot be physically killed. , Not to mention that they have terrible self-healing power and so on.

  So sometimes I wonder whether this is called the sublimation of the demon, the evolution of the demon, the evolution of the demon... how about upgrading? "

  The Epidemic Doctor stopped again. He raised his left hand, then took off his glove, revealing the crimson-twisted palm. The flesh and blood on it were still squirming slowly, but the evil was full of power.

"Some people say that humans and demons are different, and how can the existence of such a distorted hatred by demons be a'higher existence'? But what I want to say is that from a human point of view, demons are indeed a terrible **** Monsters, but from an absolute rational point of view, from a biological point of view, monsters are much stronger than humans.

  Some people will also question the so-called ‘upgrading’, but like my analogy and that speculation, human beings were upgraded from apes. From the point of view of apes, how cruel and weird humans are? We enslaved them and played with their lives and deaths at will. Are we talking about them as another kind of demons? "

  The epidemic doctor hurriedly wrote on his notes while looking at his scarlet left hand.

   "Yes, that's it. I don't have clear evidence to prove that humans were upgraded from apes, but we all know how humans become monsters. This is the evidence before our eyes."

But if this is the case, from the perspective of the epidemic doctor’s own theory, he has completed what he thinks is "evolution." Became an existence similar to the Demon Hunter.

"Some of the alchemists have tried to sublimate, but most of them failed to sublimate, some died, some suffered a huge backlash, and some succeeded, but they sublimated. Not thorough, it seems that I am the same as them, I did'evolve', but I'm not completely'evolved'.

  This is the sublimation of incompleteness, the evolution of incompleteness, and the upgrading of incompleteness. "

  So...what is missing? The epidemic doctor didn't understand this from beginning to end. He seemed to have stood in front of the door of truth, but was turned away by it because he didn't have the [voucher] in the entry.

  The epidemic doctor gave up thinking about these things. In his opinion, the only difference between himself and the monster was his self-awareness, but this alone was the only thing the epidemic doctor was afraid of.

  The road ahead is a cloud of fog. All the epidemic doctor can do is guess the trajectory of all this, but guessing is not necessarily correct. This is a gamble, and he is likely to bet everything.

Therefore, he did not dare to bet, he did not dare to bet his self-cognition on this evolutionary path. If the epidemic doctor loses his self-cognition, then the so-called "epidemic doctor" may be killed at the moment of completing the evolution. NS.

  Kill yourself? The epidemic doctor couldn't accept these things. For this reason, he also felt the so-called despair for a long time. The road was there, but once he set foot on it, he might die and couldn't see the answers to all of them.

  Hope to be at the end of the channel?

In fact, the epidemic doctor is not sure whether he can find the so-called truth, whether it is his "Evolution" or the truth, all of this is based on his own cognition and speculation, and even said that everyone currently recognizes demons. Knowing is based on such trial and error, and it has taken shape a little bit.

   "Come here first today."

  The epidemic doctor put down his pen and sighed. He has been pursuing all this for a long time, and he has developed a calm state of mind, but he is not in a hurry.

   put the notes away and put them back in the drawer. Then he walked to the other corner of the cabin and stopped in front of the operating table.

   "How do you feel now? Child."

  The epidemic doctor picked up the scalpel and turned on the lights.

  A painful whimper sounded on the operating table. With the light on, only then can it be seen clearly. The reason why it is used to describe it is that it is difficult to assess its gender, or even whether it is a human.

There are many suture scars on the human-like body, some have healed, some are still bleeding, like a doll stitched up with countless rags, and more than that. Chu's body has lost the appearance that a human should have. Its legs seem to have undergone some terrible operation. The bones were broken, and then reorganized again, turning into a beast-like recurve.

   "Oh oh oh, I'm so sorry, I forgot that I just did a lung transplant and tracheal modification for you yesterday. Your tongue is too in the way, you can only cut it off first."

  Listening to its painful whisper, the epidemic doctor repeatedly apologized.

   "Then I think about it, where should I start today?"

  The epidemic doctor picked up the post-it note that was hanging on the side, which wrote the operation schedule these days.

   "Oh, it's time to change the heart today. Wait a moment, I will pick you an absolutely powerful heart."

The epidemic doctor said with a terrifying laugh. He plugged a blood transfusion into the gradually dehumanizing creature, and the blood bag that hung up began to introduce blood into the body, which were all secret blood with extremely low content. , Can maintain its life, but not let it lose control.

Turned around and opened the curtain next to the operating table. Behind the curtain is another operating table with a ferocious monster tied to it. But at this moment, the violent monster is as meek as a kitten. Under the perverted academic psychology, it has been divided almost, a huge wound has been opened in the chest, the bones under it have long been severed, and the beating heart is clearly visible.

  Yes, everything is unknown. Whether it is your own "Evolution" or the truth at the end of the waterway, the only thing that really exists is practice, and only practice can prove the truth.

  Like a mouse in the laboratory, the epidemic doctor once did not have such resources. He could only modify himself as a mouse. However, thanks to the mutual achievements with Lawrence, he already had enough resources.

  If the road ahead is full of mist, then create another mouse and another epidemic doctor.

  Thinking about this, the epidemic doctor cut down with the scalpel.

  (End of this chapter)