Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

Chapter 693 Prologue. Chapter Zero. Cage Ⅹ

On the sea level, there is a huge black pothole. A cruise ship is docked on the periphery of this huge pothole. It is constantly impacted by the sea water. The cruise ship is stuck on the edge of this huge black pothole. It looks like a reef, but its surface is relatively Smooth black crystal edges.

The water flowed continuously over the edge of the pit, where the top of the black crystal stone stood up like a city wall, and fell into the huge pit whose depth was unknown.

Under the gray sky, the color of the seawater seemed a little unusual and dark, and there were many blackened fish and birds floating on the sea.

The black craters were left behind when the asteroid crashed. The huge amount of radiation released in just an instant wiped out all living things within hundreds of kilometers around it, but some people still survived.

The cruise ship parked on the edge of the black spar was dilapidated. There were traces of melting in many places. There were people who had turned into charcoal in many places. Only the captain lying on the deck was still alive. It was intact, except for a single eye-catching hole on the chest, and the blood had stained the white shirt red.

There were black particles floating in the air. At this moment, the captain opened his eyes suddenly. The blood was still oozing from his chest. The blood began to flow back little by little. The bullet slowly protruded from the chest. Under the black particles, Under the package, it floated in the air bit by bit, and then the bullet was flattened bit by bit, and then with a whoosh sound, it was shot towards the sea in the distance. In an instant, a scarlet track appeared on the sea, and the sea seemed to be covered by It was torn apart, with a cut mark appearing.

There was a loud boom, and the sea surface in the distance seemed to be hit by a huge air cannon. A large piece of the sea surface was sunk. With the violent shock wave, the surrounding sea surface seemed to be instantly cut flat. Huge waves rose up.

At this time, around the captain's body on the cruise ship, black particles began to pour into the captain's body crazily, and suddenly the captain opened his eyes.

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Following a violent gasp, the captain got up in horror, pressed his chest, and touched his cheek.

"Isn't this hell?"

The captain's name is Joseph. He is the captain of the Emerald Blue. He has been the captain for 15 years. Joseph seemed to be in good spirits, as if he had just woken up. His blue eyes looked a little confused. He stood up. Looking at the damaged Emerald Blue and the charred corpses on the deck, Joseph suddenly screamed in horror, then ran to the window, pressed on a broken railing and vomited.

However, no matter how much he vomited, Joseph couldn't spit out anything. Soon Joseph calmed down. He didn't know where you were, but when he saw the huge hole with no end in front of him and the flowing sea water, Joseph knew that he On the sea.

Joseph couldn't feel tired or hungry. This was the weirdest thing about him. According to his memory, Joseph remembered that the moment he saw the huge fireball falling from the sky, he lay on the deck, pointed the pistol at his heart, and pulled the trigger. trigger.

At that moment, Joseph still remembered that he saw a strong light, a dazzling light that could cover everything, and Joseph was freed. The pistol was something Joseph carried with him. He knew that sooner or later, he would have to use this thing to free himself. End his life of incomparable sin.

Soon Joseph saw the pistol that was melted together with the metal on the deck. It was the pistol he carried with him. Joseph stood up and walked over to check. Looking at the charred corpses around him, Joseph also I don’t feel bad anymore.

Soon Joseph returned to the cabin of the cruise ship. The entire cabin was in a mess. There was a disgusting rancid smell in the air, as well as a large number of broken limbs. Each of the people who died miserably must have suffered injuries on the hull. It was caused by a violent impact. Joseph suppressed his nausea and found a piece of cloth to cover his nose. He searched in the cabin. Joseph really wanted to find a watch, but unfortunately no matter how hard he searched, he never found it. .

Joseph wanted to know how long it had been, because many of the corpses that had not been burned had turned into mummies, and the food was also the same, it had become moldy and dry.

Joseph found a lot of broken watches, none of which was good. Soon Joseph searched the entire ship. What was certain was that there was no one alive except himself. Joseph came to the deck and looked down. Looking at the sea in the distance with some sadness, he then came to the captain's cabin. It was also in a mess, many places were scorched black, and all the equipment was damaged.

Joseph had previously had some illusions about being able to drive the cruise ship away. The power system was completely damaged and it was impossible to drive the cruise ship. There was only a lifeboat that needed to be rowed with oars.

However, Joseph soon gave up such thoughts. If he floated on such a bad sea, without water and food, Joseph would die in two or three days at most.

But the fact that Joseph couldn't feel cold, hunger and thirst gave Joseph a little hope. Joseph planned to experiment for a few days to see. He didn't know what had happened to his body. If he didn't feel cold, hungry and thirsty within three or four days, If he gets thirsty, Joseph plans to make a homemade sailboat and rely on the lifeboat to leave this place.

Joseph was still reviewing all this, and memories of the past kept coming back. Joseph pressed his forehead as if he had experienced death. Everything Joseph had done in the past now became extremely clear.

Joseph lost his parents when he was a child, and his grandparents raised him single-handedly. However, Joseph, who lacked parental discipline since childhood, made many bad friends and often caused trouble. In the not-so-rich local seaport town, Joseph Spent a decadent and decadent student era.

Later, due to a serious problem, Joseph was imprisoned. He was thrown into prison before he was an adult. After entering prison, Joseph was not honest. He still made friends with most of the criminals and even planned in prison. Something happened and a group of people formed a gang as soon as they were released from prison.

Starting a life of doing all kinds of evil, Joseph committed many crimes with gang members every day, but it all came to an abrupt end one day.

Because the seaport town where they were located often had ships passing by, and some ships often docked at the harbor, Joseph and his gang started to think about using ships. They would sneak onto the ships at night, steal, and even steal. Violating some women above.

One night, Joseph and his gang got on a boat as usual, but this time they missed it. When the gunfire rang out, one of the gang members was killed. Joseph was desperate at the time. They were caught, and at the same time The secret of the ship was also discovered.

The ship, which looked like a cruise ship, was actually a smuggling business, carrying everything from weapons to people, and Joseph was terrified that he was being held at gunpoint.

The rest of the gang was begging for mercy, but the other party still shot, and Joseph spoke up and followed them.

In the end, Joseph started the smuggling business with this group of people. In order to survive, he worked hard every day to please these guys. The captain at the time also saw that Joseph was a person who did this kind of thing, and he did not have much compassion. For some people who were kidnapped and smuggled, or even for some bad things, Joseph never showed an expression of intolerance or difficulty in accepting it, and sometimes he even enjoyed it.

Joseph was appreciated by the captain and became one of them. After that, Joseph learned a lot, and he started to make money with this group. Joseph has always been ruthless about the goods on the ship.

Everything on the ship was just a commodity in Joseph's eyes, and gradually Joseph also showed his talents among this group of people. He was smart and always left a way out for himself. For this reason, this group of people escaped many times. To trace.

Joseph even reached a secret deal with some people and successfully cleared himself bit by bit. After clearing everything, Joseph directly connected with someone from an international investigation organization to help them arrest this group of people. The sinful man made a quid pro quo, and soon everything turned out just as Joseph had envisioned.

This group of people was captured and sentenced to death in a country that still had the death penalty. Before the execution, Joseph went to see the captain. The captain just smiled bitterly and said that he had expected that one day Joseph would do this. , because there is no compassion and sympathy for the weak as a human being in Joseph, and there is no such thing as regret.

After successfully clearing his name, Joseph relied on huge funds to establish his own company in a certain country, purchased a cruise ship, and transformed himself into a captain. Years of career at sea have made Joseph inseparable from the sea. .

It's just that Joseph still started his old business. After that, he became more familiar with helping some secret forces transport goods. On the surface, it was a luxury tourist cruise ship, but behind the scenes, he was actually doing this kind of business. .

Joseph built his own team and made a lot of money during these chaotic years. Joseph's life was full of evil. He had been in contact with evil since he was sensible. Gradually, he lost the most important thing about human beings. The important part.

At this moment, Joseph felt that this disaster might really be God's judgment on sinful mankind. The situation in the world has been very chaotic in recent years. Developed countries have almost monopolized everything, while backward countries have been living in poverty for decades. In the midst of suffering, the world situation has basically formed a triangular opposition.

At this time, Joseph felt a discomfort. He pressed on his heart. However, the next second, Joseph looked at his hands in confusion, then tore off his clothes and tried several times. It was true that he had no heartbeat. Joseph was horrified. He screamed, but after a while Joseph came back to his senses and could think about breathing and move around, but there was no heartbeat.

But Joseph soon adapted to it, and instead he laughed, looking at the charred corpses on the deck and laughing constantly.

"My luck is really good!"

As Joseph spoke, he turned and entered the cabin. He planned to make a homemade sailboat and float along the current. One day he would be able to see land, as long as he still did not feel cold, hungry or thirsty.

At this time, a wisp of smoke suddenly appeared on the sea. The smoke slowly gathered and soon turned into a black human figure with a pair of scarlet eyes staring at the cruise ship.

August 11, 2076

8 a.m.

Along with a burst of shouting, the door of a shop in a city opened. Many people came over and came over with some things in their hands. The shop was a butcher's shop, with a large number of kangaroo skins and chopping boards hanging inside. There is a lot of fresh kangaroo meat on the table.

The boss and several men with guns around him calmed down the people who came to the store to buy kangaroo meat, and then people lined up, hoping to exchange what they had in their hands for some kangaroo skin or kangaroo meat.

The boss carefully selected the redeemers and quickly allowed some of them to enter the store, and then a dedicated person went to negotiate with them about the redemption.

Four months have passed since the catastrophe, and this country located on the entire huge island has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Most people have fled to the central part, and the food production capacity is gradually decreasing, because the sun is always hiding behind the clouds and is only willing to give the land a little warmth. This kind of sun cannot feed crops.

Nowadays, a large number of people are raising and hunting kangaroos. There are already a huge number of kangaroos living in this country. Although in the past, people were tolerant and a little sympathetic to these animals, they only carried out some hunting in order to control the number of their populations. But it is different now. These meats that people were unwilling to eat in the past have become foods that people crave now.

Some people have occupied wild pastures, directly used fluorescent lamps to make these weeds grow wildly, and then released kangaroos. The excellent reproductive ability of kangaroos has become the food that many people dream of nowadays.

It has always rained recently, and the rain has also encouraged the crazy growth of some weeds. Kangaroos have begun to breed in large numbers. Humans have kept kangaroos in captivity everywhere, and the growth cycle of kangaroos is also very fast.

Soon, many people left disappointedly outside the store. With the things in their hands, they had no choice but to go to the next kangaroo exchange shop to look for opportunities. The boss looked at the many useful things he had exchanged and smiled. Wear a coat made of kangaroo skin.

Nowadays, the climate is deteriorating and the cold is invading most places. It is necessary to find enough things and then establish a sunshine field independently. This is what most people who are capable of raising kangaroos in captivity plan to do.

Everything in this country has collapsed. The huge waves destroyed two-thirds of the coastal cities in an instant. The sun that blocked the sky caused the crops in most farmland to wither and die. Coupled with the continuous release of radiation, A large number of people are suffering from cancer, and the country can no longer find any means to solve it.

The chaos lasted for nearly two months before it finally stabilized. The boss casually picked up a stack of banknotes from a paper basket nearby and then entered the toilet. The banknotes had become waste paper because the country could never take them out. Come up with a convincing solution.

Although the country has said that it will study genetic food and improve the genes of some crops so that they can survive in such a harsh environment and increase food production, the boss knows that this is just lies. There are rumors that the president has already fled. , or in a secure facility.

All in all, this world has been abandoned. No one knows what the future will be like, but the only thing they know is that they can survive as long as they have food and drink.

After a while, the boss finished using the restroom. When he came out, he saw a few people leaving with useful things in exchange for kangaroo meat and kangaroo skin. Then he closed the store door directly. The store door has been transformed into a metal door to prevent some attacks. , and the place behind the store is a large pasture for breeding kangaroos. The boss has more than 300 men in total who patrol the pasture 24 hours a day. Once they find anyone entering the fence, they will shoot them without hesitation.

Many people used to be workers, neighbors and partners of this farmer. When the disaster happened, the shrewd boss immediately realized what would happen next, so he gathered everyone together, and there were some of them. Excellent soldier.

Now that the number of humans is too large, only small-scale unity can survive. As for the life and death of other people, it has nothing to do with the boss. Food is not enough to feed the current population.

The boss would often drive his electric car out to discuss business with some nearby gangs. Although he didn't want to admit it, the number of humans in the city was still as high as one million.

The boss also has a professional hunting team that will go to the wild to capture some wild kangaroos and send them directly to them, but now the number of wild kangaroos is getting smaller and smaller.

Because people in the city will go to the wild to hunt, everything that can be eaten, whether it is animals or plants, will be brought back.

Some people have starved to death recently. In desperation, some people even did things that went beyond human ethics. All in order to survive. Soon the boss used radio to contact the guards on various towers in the farm to confirm After everything was clear, he planned to go back to his room and play with the women.

Accompanied by a cough, the boss pressed his chest. He knew that he would not live long, and the radiation had begun to penetrate slowly. Recently, many deformed kangaroos appeared in the playground. However, when these deformed kangaroos grow up, the boss will still They sell their meat to people who come to buy them in exchange, and they choose some healthy kangaroos to eat.

The pollution will continue to become more and more serious. Most people have fled to the far south. However, there is nothing there, and the climate is extremely cold, which will only accelerate death. The climate in the central part is worse in all aspects. Slightly better.

Soon the boss returned to his lounge, where more than a dozen women were waiting like servants. The boss happily walked over, hugged the two women and started talking and laughing.

And these women wear collars around their necks, and their hands and feet are tied. No matter what the people here do to them, they will not resist. And these women are very beautiful, which is why these women can enter here. reason.

Just when the boss was getting excited, the radio contact came. The boss became confused, but he left the room after feeling comfortable. Soon the boss returned to the main entrance of the shop. There were more than ten people standing in the shop, several of them carrying bags. Carrying a box, the boss knew the purpose of their visit.

"Is it really what you said?"

One of the men wearing glasses and looking a little tired asked, and the boss nodded.

"As I said, this is not a rumor. We caught this when we went hunting in the north two months ago. It is indeed a very special kangaroo. Many people have come here before, but I didn't sell it. Because the price is not right, what can you give us!”

The boss said, lighting a cigar, and more than a dozen gun-wielding men behind him looked at the people in front of them.

"The conductive properties of organisms may have changed. We are from the Rowland Institute."

The boss watched with interest. At this time, the man wearing glasses threw a bag of things behind him. The boss looked at it doubtfully. One of his men went over and opened the bag. Immediately, the boss showed a surprised look.

"For such a big bag of corn seeds, this is indeed the highest bidder of all. Take them over."

Soon the two scientific researchers followed the boss's men and walked into the basement on the right. They covered their noses. There was a lot of blood smell inside. It was an underground slaughterhouse. As soon as they entered, they could see a The kangaroo was dismembered only in the cold, and someone was processing the fur.

Soon the two were taken to a room. In a cage, a kangaroo about 1 meter in length stood quietly in front of the cage. Its mouth was slightly open and its hands were locked, because this kangaroo was standing quietly in front of the cage. It's incredible that a kangaroo can open a cage with his own hands. The most incredible thing is that this kangaroo is blue, with blue fur all over its body.

Then the two people went over and conducted a series of simple intelligence tests on the kangaroo. They were shocked to find that the kangaroo actually had preliminary intelligence like an orangutan.

"As long as we take this thing back and conduct research, we can learn something. The recent phenomenon of biological gene recombination may be the last hope for us humans."

The man wearing glasses said, and the woman next to him nodded. Then the cage was opened, and the two noticed that the blue kangaroo was covered in wounds.

"This family is dishonest. They have escaped many times and even attacked us."

Then the blue kangaroo obediently entered a cage. Several people carried it up, and the two scientific researchers returned to the ground.

"But what are you going to do?"

The boss asked as soon as he got up, and the man wearing glasses started talking.

"This thing is the hope of mankind. Maybe it can allow us to decipher the mystery of genetic recombination. Thank you for your cooperation."

The boss waved his hand and looked at the large bag full of corn seeds. He immediately ordered his men to take this stuff to the constant temperature shed and prepare for planting.

At this time, the two scientific researchers looked at the quiet kangaroo in the cage. It seemed to be far smarter than they thought and knew the current situation. The blue kangaroo looked at them from time to time, its mouth moving slightly.

"Let's go! This will be the hope of our humanity, Fredo."

The female researcher said, and the male nodded.

"Yeah, hope! That's more important than anything else right now."