Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

The capital of the True God Kingdom, the holy place in the minds of the True God believers, can only be described in two words - abject poverty.

They saw low adobe houses, and people on the street wore tattered clothes and dirty faces. Some people didn't even have shoes. Two flat plastic bottles tied to their feet were regarded as slippers.

From these photos, it is impossible to tell what they usually eat for a living. We can only see many people holding broken containers with notches on the edges, gathering in front of an old machine like a water pump, waiting for the water to flow from the rusty yellow water pipe. out of the water.

What is surprising is that such a place that exudes poverty and dilapidation everywhere has magnificent altars and places of worship everywhere, and everyone is carrying a gun, wearing a heavy ammunition chain on their body, and their faces are covered. hostility.

"I thought that their living conditions must not be as comfortable as those in the base." Fu Yunlan frowned while holding her chin, "But I never thought that behind the amazingly morale of the True God Sect troops, there is such a backward country."

"I'm not surprised." He Xiao also rushed to the China sub-base at this moment. He looked at the restored model and said, "Poverty and lack of material life will make their beliefs stronger, and they are more willing to work for the imaginary He dedicated himself to heaven, as a 'god' who originally wanted to drive mankind to extinction, he really didn't need to waste his energy on such boring things as improving the living conditions of believers."

"Their combat power is much weaker than I imagined." Fang Jingyu said to Celeste, "It was only after I came back that I realized that this was His Majesty's real plan. Please forgive me, I really thought at first , you blamed me for the injury of the general, and wanted me to die."

Celeste nodded in understanding: "If you don't even believe me, how could we possibly fool the Devourer?"

The team that Fang Jingyu led this time seems very casual, but in fact, the combination of each member has been carefully calculated by He Xiao and Case to ensure that the combination of various indicators is enough to be misjudged by the Devourer as a team of throwing stones and asking for directions. "Abandoned pawns", the leader of the team is Fang Jingyu who made a mistake and is waiting for punishment. The super soldiers he brings are either not from the army, or are "defective products" with abnormal indicators, and the other ordinary soldiers are all without exception. problem character.

"Yes, the Devourer certainly didn't take us to heart, and focused all their attention on the task of assassinating His Majesty." Fang Jingyu said, "The troops of the True God Sect are used to the kind of troops that are as specific as walking a few steps forward and facing us." There is a clear command in which direction to shoot, this time without the command of the Devourer, they immediately became a mess, and we went all the way in like a bamboo, without encountering any decent resistance."

The order they received was very clear - to rescue those women who had not been killed according to Fu Yunlan's plan, and the Devourer probably thought that the few remaining women in the True God Sect would have no effect even if they were taken away, so they completely Let their actions go.

Fang Jingyu found the women who were imprisoned in the temple, but when he found out that the core area of ​​the True God Kingdom was so weak, he temporarily changed his plan—just as Celeste expected.

"I asked a soldier to take the girls back to the plane, and I rushed in with the rest of the super soldiers, blowing up their ammunition depot, and killing the king of the Kingdom of God. We didn't know it was him at the time, I just saw two mutants protecting one person to escape, and the super soldiers rushed up spontaneously." Although Fang Jingyu made such a great contribution, Fang Jingyu's expression still seemed to be mostly worried, "There is one thing that makes me It's strange that we made such a big commotion, but only met those two mutants. I always feel that the True God Sect shouldn't be so fragile. Later, probably the Devourer came back, and their resistance suddenly became It was organized, some super soldiers were injured, and I ordered the retreat back."

"A wise choice." He Xiao looked at the many materials that were still being analyzed, and said with a smile, "The information you brought back is much more valuable than the enemies you killed."

Fu Yunlan is not in the mood to care about whether Celeste cares too much about Fang Jingyu: "Since the True God Sect is so strong, there is no need for us to implement this strategy of carefully defending and searching for survivors everywhere." .With such a big difference in military strength, even if the Devourers have god-like computing power and command ability, we can completely wipe them out in one fell swoop."

But He Xiao shook his head: "Don't take it lightly. According to our calculations, the strength of the True God Sect cannot be as strong as it seems on the surface, otherwise they will not be able to support an army at all. If this area is the core of the True God Sect Where are their mutants and high-tech products produced?”

These words made all the humans present look at each other in blank dismay and fell into deep thought.

"However, it is enough to see from this information that the Devourer did not properly strengthen the military power of the True God Cult after we showed our banner, so you are right, we really don't need to continue passive defense anymore." He Xiao stepped down In summary, "When the next batch of super fighters can go into battle, it's time for us to counterattack and eliminate the True God Sect. Let's prepare well, and we will be busy next time."

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The next batch of super soldiers have just been injected with the t-virus, and are going through a long and painful mutation period. After they successfully mutate, they will have to undergo surgery to implant some external devices and undergo at least two weeks of adaptive training before they can truly into battle.

Strictly speaking, there are only [-] or [-] super fighters that the base can use now, but by that time, the base will have an army truly composed of super fighters.

This is the group with the largest number of people, but it may also be the last group. After all, He Xiao does not want to see an earth where all human beings are mutated.

The modified t-virus will cause pathological changes in all cells in the human body, including germ cells, which will also undergo irreversible mutations, which means that all super soldiers will lose the ability to reproduce offspring.Therefore, it is impossible to realize a society of "super soldiers for all", and the individual abilities of super soldiers are too strong. Once there are too many super soldiers, it is easy to form a new privileged class, which is not conducive to future social stability.

Also because super soldiers will lose their fertility, from the beginning, the application quota for super soldiers was limited to men only.

He Xiao's gender concept is very realistic. Men are consumables. After adulthood, as long as you leave a sample in the sperm bank, you can die with peace of mind. Women are the population resources that must be protected, so from the outbreak of the zombie virus, those who are lucky Almost all the staff who were brought to the Blue Shield base and survived in a favorable environment were elite women with good health and excellent genes. Young women are always given priority when refugees are rescued, while combatants are all men. The same goes for super soldiers.

The captain of the Hummingbird Town, Li Kailin, also submitted an application to become a super soldier. She knew that this meant that she would face a dangerous job unimaginable by ordinary people, and lose the extra protection and preferential treatment that she could have received as a woman, but she still dreamed Everyone wants to get the powerful ability of a super soldier.

As a result, her application was ruthlessly rejected. The super soldier did not accept women. The only exception was Dandy who had already lost her fertility because of radiation, so she got this opportunity.

Li Kailin tried to talk to Celeste, but now Celeste is no longer something she can see. This stubborn woman simply went to live in the radiation area for half a month and ate a lot of radiation After the food, the application was filed again.

Since then, Celeste has issued a new regulation, regardless of whether the army or super soldiers are no longer limited by gender, women can also join the army as long as they pass the same standard physical fitness and combat skill tests as men.After all, war is not a sports meeting, and the enemy will not feed you a few fewer bullets just because you are a woman.

He Xiao objected to this: "Perhaps some women are not inferior to men in combat, but in this case, it is obviously more useful to let them perform reproductive functions than one more soldier."

"I know." Celeste leaned on the office chair with his chin propped up in one hand, speaking more and more like an emperor, "But I don't think it's necessary to only consider maximizing efficiency at all times. "

"If the people in power aren't aiming at maximizing efficiency, what are they aiming for?"

After all, He Xiao is not a human being, and his way of thinking is closer to that of a cold computer. Celeste believes that if human beings' ability to accept and empathize are not included in the calculation, according to He Xiao's character, He can do the humane destruction of all super soldiers when the war is over.

"People are not machines. Everyone has different personalities and pursuits. In your eyes, she is just a number among many people, but to her, it is the most important ideal and ambition in her entire life after all. Celeste tried to explain his point of view, and didn't expect He Xiao to really understand, anyway, it was enough that He Xiao would follow his orders.

"That's not like something you would say." He Xiao looked at Celeste inquiringly.

"Then what do you think I should say to be like 'me'?" Celeste showed a smile that made He Xiao feel very familiar, "People are always going to change, the ordinary and weak person before the age of 15 I, the emotionless, ignorant and ignorant me later, and the current me, aren’t they all me?”

"...Did you remember something?" He Xiao asked in surprise.

"You seem to be afraid that I will remember something." Celeste looked at him with a smile, "Why?"

"Don't play tricks with me." He Xiao said seriously, "Tell me, this is very important."

"I don't." Celeste said calmly, "Unless you are willing to tell me now, why I have to close my memory, and what happened in my missing memory, I still want to Can't get up."

He Xiao pondered for a moment before saying: "...I don't want to lie to you."

"So you choose to remain silent." Thellister said blankly, "Then, so do I."

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Celeste got up and left the office, leaving He Xiao alone in meditation.

In fact, he was not surprised that things would turn into the current situation. The "similar" he knew was originally a strong and determined person, and the state of ignorance was only temporary. As Celeste recalled more about the past Sooner or later, he will become the one He Xiao knows well.

He Xiao's thoughts went back to the past, and the memories of the past reappeared in his mind in detail.

At that time, all the chaos had not yet begun, He Xiao only had the appearance of a junior high school student, and the He Group, the predecessor of the Blue Shield Group, was only a joint venture company that produced automobile engines, and the identity of that "similar" on Earth was his. Great-grandfather's younger brother.

He looked like an old man, but He Xiao knew that he had a soul much younger than himself.

"Humans, what a strange creature." He Xiao slid his fingers on the latest tablet computer at the time, "Their brains are very unreliable, their memories are fuzzy and chaotic, intermittent, and most of the time they are doing nothing. Meaningful fantasies and unconstrained fantasies, not to mention the strange emotions produced by the influence of oxytocin and adrenaline, but it is amazing that their technological development speed and ability to discover new knowledge far surpass those of us. An advanced intelligent life with clear thinking."

The old man said in an old but steady voice: "If the life of human beings is not a few decades, but hundreds of thousands of years, you can calculate what human civilization is like now?"

He Xiao quickly simulated the social process in that situation in his mind: "... If human beings live so long, they should still be in a slavery society with extremely backward productivity."

"Yes, we have always thought that the short lifespan is the fatal flaw of human beings, so that they don't have so much time to accumulate enough knowledge. Most people rush to learn the basic survival skills for a few years and rush to live to die , a small number of lucky people with innate intelligence have managed to accumulate a large amount of knowledge, but they have not had time to make more inventions, so they die in vain with a head full of knowledge. What a wasteful and inefficient life form..." The old man Said calmly, "But in fact, this seemingly flawed part of human beings is the real advantage of human beings. It forces every newborn of human beings to start from scratch and learn knowledge bit by bit. It also gave them the opportunity to overthrow everything and start from scratch. New ideas, new knowledge systems, new morals and values ​​can be quickly accepted by the society. In the face of the laws of nature, they are forced to withdraw from the stage of history, so that young people have the opportunity to transform the world according to new ideas."

"You mean...their creativity is due to their short life?" He Xiao was a little surprised.

"Our lifespan is too long, so that we have enough time to continuously solidify our thinking mode while accumulating massive knowledge. Our knowledge is directly inherited instead of passed down, which saves us the cumbersome and inefficient The learning process also makes it difficult for us to overthrow the existing knowledge system and look at the problem from a completely new perspective. Our strength is actually our weakness, and it is the root cause of our dead end." The old man's muddy voice His eyes were clearer than anyone else's. He said slowly but clearly, "I voluntarily give up the longevity of my race and the knowledge of the past. It may be a huge setback for me personally, but for our race In other words, this is an opportunity, an opportunity to step back from a dead end and see if there is another way to go."

"But you know, for us, memory is the whole content of our life." He Xiao looked at the same kind he had just gotten to know with some regret, "If you completely lose the memory of the past after you are born again, it will be the same as death. What's the difference. Is it really worth dying for an experiment?"

"The threat of the Devourer is imminent. Our race, and even the intelligent civilizations in the entire universe, have reached the point of life and death. This is not the time to care about personal gains and losses." The old man said firmly, "If my experiment can be successful, maybe the new life Afterwards, I couldn't invent anything that could change the situation of the battle immediately, but at least we had a direction, a chance to turn defeat into victory."

"Are you willing to give up your own life for the sake of your people?" He Xiao looked at him inquiringly, "Or... this is actually what humans call 'suicide'? You have never come out of the grief of losing him, have you? "

"No, I won't be so overwhelmed." The old man seemed to recall something, and a gentle smile appeared from the corners of his brows and eyes, "I just learned something from him... something we don't have."

-end of part two-

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