My boss hung up again

"What happened to him?" Xing Jun whispered in Tang Yu's ear.

"Hush." ​​Tang Yu signaled her not to speak, and Dr. Lu muttered to himself. Although his eyes fell on the two of them, what he said was not communicating.Dr. Lu's eyes were heavy, and he kept chanting uncomfortable words such as "doomsday", "judgment", and "it's up to him" as he walked past Tang Yu and Xing Jun and left the room.

Seeing him walk away, Tang Yu said: "Dr. Lu was not in a good condition before he came to the city, and I don't know how he passed the rescue assessment."

"What did he mean?"

Tang Yu looked at the glass cage in the middle of the room: "It probably has something to do with this."

A young woman was sitting in the corner of the glass cage. She hugged herself and curled up trembling. When she saw other people coming, she immediately stood up and patted the glass in the direction of Tang Yu and Xing Jun, shouting: "Help me!" ! Let me out! I can give you money! I have 2000 million and give it all to you!"

"Drink, it's powerful enough." Xing Jun put his hands on his hips, "Why don't we let her out, we will share the 2000 million yuan equally, and we won't do this unlucky job anymore. Let's travel the world together as rich people."

Tang Yu was completely unmoved. While observing the woman, she lowered her head and recorded: "Please, can you shut up? She is still traveling around the world. How long do you think she can live?"

Mr. Xing is not embarrassed either, and is especially adapted to the life of being spurned: "Well, the eyes are all blue, and the color of the tongue has also changed."

"That's not the point. This is a picture of her when she was brought in two days ago."

Xing Jun took the photo. Although the woman in the photo had a terrified expression, it could be seen that she was normal and beautiful.

"Look at the difference from her now."

Mr. Xing glanced at the photo and then at the woman. The person was the same person. There was no specific change in the facial features, but the strange thing was that the whole face was not quite right.

"Looks like it's become ugly?" Xing Jun said uncertainly.

"The boss of sd only has this power of observation?" Tang Yu took the photo back and hung it in front of their eyes, "Look at the forehead."

"Forehead?" After Tang Yu mentioned it, she could really see the difference, "Is the forehead narrowed?"

"The height has also become shorter. She was about the same height as me, around 168."

"Strange, it looks like 150 now. Is it so much worse?"

"The hair on the arms increased significantly, and the length of the arms became visibly longer, actually growing by four centimeters."

Tang Yu put away the photo and put it back in the paper clip above the file.

Xing Jun stared at her for a long time, she had roughly guessed the truth, it was extremely absurd.

"You mean..."

"Degenerate." Tang Yu was calm when she said these two words, as if she had accepted the fact, "She degenerated in the direction of ape-man. Ape-man is the direct ancestor of modern humans. Compared with modern humans, their foreheads Narrower and shorter, with short legs, long arms and long hair, and a brain volume of just over 1000 milliliters. She is making great strides in that direction."

"Degeneration? It became like this in just two days?"

"In fact, she has been infected by the virus for about a week, and it takes about three weeks to fully degenerate. This is the effect of the genetic fluid. The younger and more active the individual, the faster the time to complete degeneration. You see, there is still a year behind her." personal."

Xing Jun saw an old lady wearing gold-rimmed glasses in the corner. She had been crying silently, wiping her tears with the back of her hairy hand.

"She was scratched by infected creatures for more than two weeks, but she only grew thick hair. It would take about two months for her to complete full degeneration at her age, or be swallowed by the toxicity of the genetic spit in the process of degeneration , and die without complete degeneration.”

"I don't understand." Xing Jun wondered, "Why did it degenerate? You also know about the Antai Department Store incident. The survivors described definitely superpowers beyond normal human capabilities. They come from the same organization..."

Tang Yu suddenly raised his head and looked directly at Xing Jun: "A hidden reef?"

Xing Jun narrowed his eyes slightly: "Where did you know?"

"There are some things that not only your sd have news about."

"Since you already know, I won't hide it from you. It is indeed a hidden reef. They are the ones who killed Professor Su and took away the gene fluid. They experimented on themselves and cultivated a group of superpowers. They are the ones who destroyed Antai Department Store. "

"They not only experimented on themselves, but also experimented on many innocent people, and even spread the virus in the city. The people in the glass cage and all the infected people in the quarantine area below are all because of the reef, right?" Tang Yu raised his voice slightly, appearing a little excited.

"That's right." Xing Jun didn't hide it from her.

Tang Yu also realized her gaffe, and restrained her emotions, saying: "The genetic fluid that Reef snatched from Professor Su is not a truly stable fluid. As I said before, it will change in different life individuals. Produce different transformation effects. Not all the people who participated in the experiment in the reef obtained extraordinary abilities."

"You mean..."

"Infection with the genetic saliva virus will result in two situations. One is the evolution of genes, and the ability to hack shopping malls with hands is exactly the ability they have acquired through evolution; the other is degeneration, where humans degenerate into apes with low intelligence."

After Tang Yu finished speaking, the two stood there in silence for a long time, as if they were digesting the information contained in this short sentence.

Finally, the king asked a question.

"Doctor Tang. What if the genetic fluid infects animals and plants?"

"Same." Tang Yu spoke quickly, and immediately answered the question, "Evolution and degeneration are two choices, and the specific direction of development is determined by the difference in your own genes..." She suddenly stopped in the middle of the sentence, unbelievable Looking at Mr. Xing.

"You have finally realized it? While some humans degenerate, the genes of countless animals and plants in the infected city are also changing. The difference is that human degeneration will only lead to the reduction of intelligence and reduce threats, but animals and plants are different."

The folder in Tang Yu's hand almost fell to the ground: "The huge number of cats and dogs in the city will degenerate into very aggressive carnivorous primitive ancestors. And the abnormal environment will breed animals and plants that we can't imagine. "

"Species that have disappeared during evolution may return to the earth." Xing Jun answered her words, "This is not the scariest thing, the scariest thing is the evolution that we have never heard of. What will the part of evolution look like? Appearing in front of us, no one knows."

Tang Yu's face was very ugly.

While they were talking, there were still tears in the corners of the old lady's eyes in the corner of the glass cage. She had stopped crying at some point, and her slightly protruding lips carried a strangeness that she didn't notice.Through the gold-rimmed glasses, she looked curiously and quietly at the two women outside the cage.

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It was dusk when we returned to the ground.

The main road in the center of the city has been cleared, the mountain of corpses remains the same, and the refrigerated trucks are filled one after another, heading towards the isolation area.Armed police are still arresting people, roads are blocked, and helicopters are circling in the sky.

There are not many living people left in the city.

A jeep drove over and parked in front of the crude helipad.

A helicopter approached slowly in the distance, and the clothes and hair of the two women and a man who got off the jeep were blown by the wind blowing from the rotor.

Holding a thick document in his hand, Lu Xiaoquan looked back at Mr. Xing worriedly, and said hesitantly: "Senior sister, you should go back. I don't quite understand what evolution and degeneration you are talking about. Do you understand my report? Besides, this place is so dangerous, I want to stay with my senior sister."

Xing Jun shook his head without any doubt, and didn't answer Lu Xiaoquan, so he didn't give her a chance to persuade her.

The helicopter landed, and the armed police unloaded two large boxes of weapons and handed over the handover slip to Mr. Xing.Xing Jun patted the hesitant Lu Xiaoquan on the back, signaling her to hurry up.

"Senior Sister! I will come back as soon as possible!" Lu Xiaoquan's voice was swallowed by the huge roar of the helicopter. Xing Jun and Xu Tianming watched her leave, and the helicopter gradually turned into a small black spot in the gray sky.

As soon as Lu Xiaoquan left, Xu Tianming started smoking: "Tell me, what chance do we have of surviving this time?"

Xing Jun curled his lips: "It's hard to say, it depends on luck."

"That's less than [-]%? You've dismissed Xiaoquan."

"She is still young, impulsiveness is not suitable to stay here." Xing Jun asked, "Is there any news about Jiang Feng and Qu Ling?"

Xu Tianming shook his head: "Not yet. Ever since Jiang Feng was trapped in Antai Department Store when Qu Ling's missing gene fluid fell into the hands of Reef, he has never contacted them again. Could it be..."

Xing Jun patted him on the shoulder, indicating that there is no need to continue.

"We were ready for today when we were drafted into reserve school. There's nothing to say."

Xu Tianming nodded, and the two of them saw a victim not far away screaming and rushing out, his whole face was covered with dark blue.Lush hair protruded from the gaps in the buttons of the shirt that was tightly pressed to the body.He yelled tremblingly, turned his head while running, only heard a gunshot, he fell down, trembling, and soon became silent.

Two armed policemen came up. Under the gas masks, they yawned and dragged away the body that was not yet cold.

Xu Tianming said: "The teacher didn't teach us these things when we entered the reserve school."

Xing Jun smiled: "That's because our teacher has never been to the city. Old Xu, don't be soft-hearted. You should think about it carefully. If the virus here spreads to other cities and infects others, such as your wife and your daughter, what will you do?" ?”

Speaking of his wife and daughter, Xu Tianming quickly swept away his previous hesitation, and subconsciously touched the pistol on his waist: "I will not let this happen."

Xing Jun smiled: "That's right, that's right. Master Lu, this is really a doomsday trial, an unexpected and brilliant chapter in the history of evolution. If human civilization still exists after tens of thousands of years, I should use heavy pen and ink to describe this offensive and defensive battle. I don’t know what role we will play. Guardians, or destroyers.”