under the tower

The flames of war gradually subsided.

Chang Wentao and Lu Mingyue were captured alive by Ji Xi's subordinates. Ji Xi took Yan Yiyi to the helicopter. He was injured too badly, without growth preparations, and it would take a long time to recover.

The high tower has been completely destroyed, and all the old lairs of the Chang family and the Lu family have been emptied before Ji Xi's arrival, and it is only a matter of time before the remaining aberrations are cleared.

Ji Xi found Lu Mingxiu and Yu Chengyuan with disgraced faces and two broken leg bones under a pile of collapsed cement slabs.

He was carrying a plane of wounded, and a helicopter was like a stuffed water bird, almost overweight, flying slowly and wobbly in the air.

Ji Xi thought for a while, then said: "Come back to Shencheng with me."

All have no objections.

The northern city was devastated, and it might be difficult to even open the treatment center in a short time. Ji Xi simply took in all the refugees by himself, and asked the subordinates who came with them to bring all the wounded they could bring, no matter men, women, old or young.

After Lu Mingxiu came up, he only said one sentence: "Where's that bastard old Lu?"

Ji Xi said: "I'm holding them all, Wan Yi personally watched them, don't worry, I didn't lose them."

Lu Mingxiu immediately caught a strange smell: "Who is Wanyi?"

Ji Xi paused: "..."

"Cough..." He pretended to clear his throat, shrank his neck, and whispered vaguely, "That... my ex-fiancee."

Yan Yi, the deputy seat, glanced at him, and that look made Ji Xi feel like he was about to be frozen.

Ji Xi smiled awkwardly, and immediately explained: "Yanyi, listen to me, I have nothing to do with her! Besides, she married soon after I left, we are really just ordinary friends..."

Chang Huai said with a strange air, "Oh, my friend."

Ji Xi slapped the bridge, and dived down at a very high speed, arrogant: "Speak again, I will throw you directly, believe it or not?"

This trick was quite effective, and Chang Huai immediately shut up.

Two hours later, they arrived in Shencheng.

Helicopters landed slowly on the tarmac one by one. The treatment team had received the news in advance and took pictures to escort the equipment to receive the injured together.

Ji Xi walked around non-stop, the buttocks of his own sofa were still warm, he was worried about Yan Yi, and immediately followed him to the treatment center downstairs.

Yan Yi was lying in the treatment cabin receiving treatment. Because of Ji Xi's special instructions, two medical staff stood by and observed the situation at any time.

Surprisingly, according to their diagnosis, Yan Yi currently only has some symptoms of flesh wounds and excessive blood loss, and is no longer serious.

In other words, that heart has been completely compatible with the other party's body.

On the contrary, the other party was startled when he saw a big bloody hole in Ji Xi's chest, and quickly stepped forward to hold him, expressing that he would give him emergency treatment.

Ji Xi waved his hand and said, "I can't die."

In addition to destroying the head, the reinvented person, like the deformed person, has an extremely tenacious vitality.

Let him grow slowly, there is no rush anyway.

Chang Huai took out a thick roll of yellowed old paper from his bosom, and handed it to Ji Xi: "I found this thing before I left, I think you should be interested."

Ji Xi took it and took a closer look, but couldn't look away for a long time.

It turns out that this is the truth of everything.

This should be one of the manuscripts left by a certain leader before his death decades ago, and I don't know where Chang Huai found it.

"Recently, I've been dreaming about things from the past, probably the time has come, and I know it myself, I've lived long enough.

When I was young, my grandmother always told me to play less with mobile phones. Seeing that each of you has become a slave to technology, I don't think so.

I was born in 1985. Compared with today, it was a fairly peaceful and primitive age. With hard work and a pretty good brain, I was admitted to the Higher Academy of Sciences and later became a student specializing in biology. PhD.

During that period of time, I witnessed that human beings explored science more and more deeply, and various novel technologies bloomed like a hundred flowers and emerged one after another.It has to be said that it was a magical and exciting day. You never knew that you would lead mankind to that path, but you undoubtedly knew that you were standing at the crossroads of the times, and you had the power to change the world with your intellect. .

How great it is.

From about 20 years ago, I was the director of a secret research project, which changed my life.

Therefore, although I have become a biologist, I am also fanatically fascinated by physics.

They sent two dead scientists, whose bodies were kept in freezers.

What I have to do is revive them.

At first, I vehemently refused the request.

This is a fool's dream, and that's how I answered them at the time.

Yes, how can a dead person come back to life?I am not God.

In that year, a major event that shocked the world happened.

Global warming has destroyed the ozone layer to a dangerous extreme. According to calculations, if we cannot solve this problem within 15 years, the entire human race will face a catastrophe.

Human beings are very fragile. Regardless of how far our wisdom and technology have developed, as long as a little invisible and intangible solar radiation can completely destroy the entire human ecosystem.

We are running out of time.

Coincidentally, the two deceased scientists who were sent here specialized in this field during their lifetimes.

I'm a biologist, I can't deal with the ozone layer, I don't know anything about that stuff.

There is only one thing I can do.

Even if it's impossible... I can only try.

For the first few years, we failed miserably. We used cancer cells, we cultured tissue, we used electric shocks, we even tried to transplant brains.

There is a saying that the end of science is theology, and I have too much feeling for it.

During that period of time, I lived in the laboratory almost every day, accompanied by corpses in the freezer, and my brain was chaotic. At the end of the experiment, I began to search for the truth like a madman, and kept thinking about what caused it. Human aging and death?Why does life naturally diminish?

What is it that makes our life span only a few hundred years?

I always think that only when I find the answer can I understand how to revive a dead person, otherwise everything will be in vain.

Of course, the scientific community has an explanation for this. Aging is the damage caused by free radicals in the body to cells and functions, just like a machine will wear out after a long time. When the broken one can no longer be used, it will naturally usher in death.

That's a good way to say it.

However, free radicals exist in the human body just like oxygen exists in the air, and they cannot be eliminated at all. Without oxygen, people cannot live at all.

I couldn't go on this road, and I felt extremely painful. Years of failures made me completely lose confidence, and I could only rely on God's will.

However, maybe the gods really heard my begging and fulfilled it. More than three years after the project started, we accidentally extracted a strange substance from the preserved corpses.

I call it matter because I don't really know how to describe it.

It is beyond our cognitive system, like an energy generated out of thin air.

At that moment, I couldn't figure it out, but felt the insignificance of human beings again.

But it didn't work, we tried to inject this refined substance into the human body, but it didn't work.

I gave up.

Because the experiment failed to make progress all year round, the project was eventually shelved, waiting for a new opportunity.

That opportunity appeared one day ten years later.

The guard told me that there seemed to be some malfunctions in the freezer, and there were always some strange noises in the middle of the night. I went to check, and then I saw a scene that I will never forget.

One of the two scientists was banging on the cabinet door and seemed to be saying, let me out.

At that moment, I couldn't describe my inner feelings. For so many years, I have done countless experiments on their corpses, and I don't know which one worked, or it was not my credit.

It is God who wants to save mankind, so that such a miracle will happen.

However, after 31 hours, our hopes were dashed.

This respected academician turned into a terrifying monster, and even lost his basic sanity.

Two of my assistants were attacked and killed by him, and I narrowly escaped.

This is too big a deal. The original confidentiality plan was highly valued by the leadership because of this accident. I wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

They dispatched countless elites in the industry, and finally came to the conclusion that this kind of creature has completely surpassed the basic cognition of the human body, "he" no longer needs to rely on body organs to operate and survive, "he" itself is a mass of changes Energy sources in the form of permutations and combinations.

In other words, the machine, which had been worn out and unusable, was re-powered in yet another, ground-breaking way.

Immortal.

For all human beings standing on the edge of the precipice, this word is like a lifeline.

So, after the news spread, countless warriors spontaneously invested in experiments and became living samples of our project, and our path of exploration has also changed.

No longer obsessed with regeneration and resurrection, we want to allow human beings to continue to live forever.

Even so, it is inevitable that we, as individuals, will be coerced by human technology when it has developed to that point.

One of the gates that cannot be opened is genetic modification, morality, ethics, many things put shackles on the beasts behind this gate, but our technology is enough to handle everything.

This is a Pandora's box that will be triggered sooner or later.The times are advancing, and many things are inevitable.

I think I am sober, and I chose to go with everything.

Then, things went smoothly unexpectedly.

I extracted the gene samples after rearrangement and combination of the revived body, and carefully spliced ​​and transformed them in the living human body, which greatly extended the anti-aging ability of human beings.On the other hand, I often hear that the ozone layer repair program has also made breakthrough progress, and everything is moving in the right direction.

I once believed so firmly that everything I did was protecting humanity.

But you are using a force that you can't control at all, how can you not be backlashed?

In the beginning, after a period of time, genetically modified people would experience confusion and even corpses. I felt sad and tried my best to correct this problem.

After about 20 years, I finally made it.

With remodeling, senescence is largely halted and massively promoted.

Although the problem of the ozone layer has been solved many years ago, human beings no longer face the threat of survival, but who would not yearn for immortality? ?During that time, it was my happiest day. The threshold of my laboratory was almost broken. Sometimes I even had an illusion that I was not a scientist, but a businessman.

The original intention of everything has changed.

I know the risks involved, but I can't resist the temptation of fame and fortune.

Yes, who would dare to believe that a scientist leading genetic modification technology has not undergone any modification himself?

I stood at the pinnacle of power, years of glory and success made me start to get lost, and I thought I could see and control all accidents.

Five years later, genetic modification began to try to change physical fitness. Later, we called it "supernatural evolution". Human beings are undergoing an unprecedented, self-led biological evolution.

We are creating a new era, just thinking about it is enough to make people excited.

Then, an accident happened.

The first batch of people who underwent transformation all encountered unexplainable fertility difficulties, and all transformation plans were urgently stopped. We went all out to study what the problem was.

Everything that followed was simply out of my control.

The fertility problem has not yet been solved, but human greed can no longer stop. In 2060, the "Doomsday Clearance Plan" officially started after the high-level resolution was passed. They used the spread virus refined from the first generation of mutants to plunge the world into chaos. Constantly decaying, genetically modified people have firmly occupied the peak of power because they have mastered enough resources from the beginning, enslaving the remaining 80.00% of the unmodified group.

No one thought that the transformed humans who were supposed to bear the responsibility of protecting the entire human population had become the source of destruction.

I have spent the rest of my life atoning for this, and what I've learned doesn't fix anything, it just makes things worse.

What is the ability?What is a deformed person?No one defines us, and I'm even intimidated by the technology I own.

I gave up pursuing biology and spent the last few decades of my life searching for the truth.

I never thought that in the end all my doubts would be solved by a law of physics.

…From a more macro perspective, if the universe is regarded as a whole, the energy in it is infinite, even if it is consumed, it should be ebb and flow, and it will always be constant.

As human beings, we also operate by absorbing energy. Since energy is infinite, why does the human body die after decades?

It’s free radicals, or to describe it more appropriately, it’s the excess dissipated chaotic energy that can’t be used and accumulates in this imperfect machine, which aggravates its internal chaos and operating costs, and eventually causes the machine to wear out and die .

The so-called chaotic and unusable energy is called "entropy".

Entropy has increased to the extreme, and the universe can only be classified as heat death.

All energies will be arranged and combined in an extremely chaotic manner, and within this, no living body will exist.

I didn't understand it many years ago, but by chance, I created a top-notch entropy-increasing container.

——That is the deformed person.

They are immortal, because the energy of the universe will supply them to "live" endlessly, but because of the extreme chaos, the human brain cannot operate in a rational and orderly manner, and will only show the instinct of absorbing energy, that is, hungry The characteristics of biting other life forms.

The earliest deformed people have the potential to be compatible with endless entropy, but this is not what we want, because they have no thinking ability, they are not real life forms at all, and they cannot be used by us.

Based on this, and through continuous attempts, we hit the right track and found that through genetic modification, the human body has room for more entropy, thereby prolonging life.

But everything has an end, just like a warehouse, no matter how many things can be loaded, it will be completely filled sooner or later in the continuous accumulation.

This is an inescapable fate.

I just realized that we were actually headed in a completely wrong direction from the beginning.

The end of entropy increase is disorder and destruction, while entropy decrease represents survival and continuation.

The so-called genes control the characteristics of the human body, which part should be placed in which position. Some machines with unreasonable factory design are more likely to age and break down, and the same is true for the human body.

If one day, human genes can be arranged in the most appropriate way to create a perfect entropy reduction machine, which can turn all invalid energy into order and use it, and only then can we obtain real eternal life without experiencing invalid consumption.

That will be the end of evolution and the end of the world.

It is also the only way for human beings to survive in the heat death.

It's a pity, maybe I'm too idealistic. There are countless combinations of gene fragments, and the probability is one in a few trillion. If it weren't for the miracle to come again, I should not see this day coming in my lifetime.

If human beings are allowed to continue to develop like this from the current path, they will surely kill themselves.

Now that my time is approaching, I just hope to record my shallow knowledge with pen and paper, and leave it to future generations, in an attempt to make up for my one or two mistakes.

2077.8.14

Notes of Zhao Changyuan. "