Draw an NPC ID card at the beginning of the game [unlimited]

Long before the establishment of human bases, there was a giant tree in the wasteland.

Su Jingtong was the first human to discover the giant tree.

He led his men to this place by mistake in order to avoid the oncoming disaster and the pursuit of robots.

Before that, no one knew that there was a huge tree that could camouflage living in the wasteland.

At that time, there were many human bases.

Su Jingtong was the leader of the scientific research team who had to come out from a base for investigation.

An entire research team, plus two guard teams to protect the research members, a group of 28 people became the initial members of the current human base.

With nostalgia in Su Jingtong's eyes, he recalled and said: "At first we didn't want to stay here."

Just no way.

At that time, a huge heat storm suddenly broke out in the entire wasteland. If Su Jingtong hadn't accidentally discovered this giant tree growing underground, all 28 of them would have died long ago.

The huge heat storm will also melt away all the robot squads who accidentally found traces of humans and chased them.

This giant tree is rounded up to help Su Jing and his party solve the two most dangerous crises in a row.

But they didn't decide to stay here at the time.

It was really because the giant tree in front of him was too weird.

Compared with the current human base, the tree of life first looked like a trunk covered with more metal, the whole underground had a strong and pungent smell of engine oil, thick vines wrapped around the trunk like a giant python, and dotted with Some tiny vines.

There is no light in the entire cave, and it has not been artificially developed. It is just an underground environment squeezed out by giant trees for survival, sultry, humid, and dark.

Compared with the human base built on the surface, this place is really not good. They all want to return to their original base.

Once the heat storm passed, the group left again through the hole created by the giant tree.

"Unfortunately, when we got back to the base..."

The several bases that were originally built on the surface have all been attacked and wiped out by the sudden heat storm.

Su Jingtong had no choice but to drag some other survivors who also escaped the disaster back to the giant tree for shelter.

They arrived at the giant tree again before dark, and only then escaped the search of the robots at night.

"From the beginning of being forced to live by the tree, to the unintentional discovery of the role of the fruit of the tree."

Human beings can't find a surviving base, so they only need to dig out the function of this strange giant tree around them step by step.

The water source collected by the fruit of life and the root of the tree solves the two biggest problems facing mankind.

Although the taste of the fruit is really not very good.

Human beings have settled in this place, and after nearly a hundred years, they have gradually developed and grown, forming the current scale.

Su Jingtong didn't mind telling the players the story of the human base from the beginning.

Most of his eyes were focused on Qi Wuyuan.

——It was Qi Wuyuan's actions that made Su Jingtong finally make a decision to tell all this.

Except for Su Jingtong, no one knew that the situation in the base had actually reached a serious level.

Su Jingtong's emotions are complicated. Under his youthful body, every move reveals a unique temperament that only experienced people have.

Su Jingtong reached out and touched his chest, feeling the beating heart. His expression was a little complicated, "I didn't find the different metal in the extract of the fruit of life until later."

The metal with a different name in Su Jingtong's mouth is the "certain metal" understood by Qi Wuyuan when he diagnosed the old man before.

Su Jingtong turned his head and pressed twice precisely and quickly on the densely packed buttons on the table behind him.

A small special glass room was set up in the laboratory, and all changed from the original black to a transparent color in an instant, making it easier for several players to see the things inside.

After Su Jingtong's analysis found that the content of different metals in the fruit of life exceeded the standard, he has been trying to find a way to replace the fruit of life as food for residents.

It's just that this kind of thing is easy to say, but it is really not easy to do.

The population of the base had already exceeded five figures at that time, how to solve the food needs of tens of thousands of people?

This is not something that can be broken just by saying it.

As for the matter of food, you can't get over it if you can bear it. Without food, human beings will die.

Su Jingtong can use power to suppress all signs of religious consciousness, so that the people in the base will not develop the personal respect for the tree of life into theology and religious worship.

But he can't achieve this kind of power when it comes to just-needed items like food. Su Jingtong's attitude towards this matter is very frank, and he directly admits the fact that he can't do it.

It's just that Su Jingtong didn't work hard.

Qi Wuyuan and the others saw that in the glass room, it was the result of an experiment that Su Jingtong was secretly conducting——

A small sapling less than one meter tall grew stubbornly in the glass room. The soil it inhabited was the most common yellow soil in the real world that players had never seen in this dungeon.

Without metal blocks attached to it, without vines entangled, it is the most normal sapling.

Su Jingtong actually cultivated a normal sapling in such an environment.

That in itself is a surprising thing.

Su Jingtong said: "This is the limit."

"The cultivated plant can only grow to this state, and we have no way to provide the energy it needs to grow further."

This is a tree that must not be polluted by heterogeneous metals, which means that it cannot be cultivated with anything in the base.

Su Jingtong said: "There is no food outside, and all the seeds of food crops and living creatures that can be eaten by humans have been extinct."

It's not like he hasn't wondered how the humans kept as pets in the city survived, but unless... otherwise, they couldn't enter the inner ring at all, so how could they understand.

Therefore, among Su Jingtong's countless ideas, the previous ideas either failed or the actual operation was not allowed at all, leaving only this stupid method.

- Cultivate a new tree of life from scratch without contamination by heterologous metals.

Although Su Jingtong himself knows that the success rate of this method is not high, even if it is successfully cultivated, it may not necessarily produce new fruits of life, but it is still necessary to try.

He really thought about the base and wanted to solve the plight faced by the residents.

What happened to Uncle Zhang today has already exposed the tip of the dangerous iceberg to the residents.

It's just that the residents don't know the situation yet, and the whole base is discussing what kind of disease Uncle Zhang has, and they haven't shifted their attention to the tree of life.

Su Jingtong didn't know what button he pressed on the console, and a chart data suddenly appeared on the glass wall.

"These are two mutations that occurred after long-term consumption of the fruit of life in the base."

Two curves, one red and one blue, start triggering from 0 at the same time.

After nearly a hundred years of changes, the result of lesion representing red and the result of evolution representing blue, the two curves are now approaching to overlap.

Su Jingtong said: "The problem is precisely in this overlap."

With the rigorous attitude unique to scientists, Su Jingtong frowned and said, "I calculated the model a long time ago."

"According to the algorithm, the deduced model will be noticed by the residents of the base not long after the results of the two mutations overlap."

Before being noticed by the residents, metal dissolvers can be regularly distributed to stabilize everyone, but after being noticed, the balance of the base will be broken.

The pursuit of power is an unavoidable thought for human beings, but this variation itself has no reference and is extremely unstable.

Qi Wuyuan guessed Su Jingtong's thoughts, he took over and said, "Is it because the remaining human base is too small?"

Su Jingtong nodded, indicating that Qi Wuyuan's guess was correct.

Under Su Jingtong's approving gaze, Qi Wuyuan thought for a while and continued: "The mutation must either evolve successfully, or once a disease occurs, even a mild patient cannot escape the environment of the heterogeneous metal."

"So even if this lesion is very easy to treat, it can be regarded as a terminal illness for the humans in the base."

Qi Wuyuan came to the conclusion indifferently: "What's more, there are only tens of thousands of human beings left in the end. After some competition and mutation, the surviving population will also fall below a certain limit-"

"Functional extinction."

Su Jingtong smiled bitterly: "That's right."

"That's exactly what worries me."

"Most of the lesion symptoms are elderly people over 60 years old or children who die prematurely after premature lesions before the age of three."

The resistance mechanism in this group of people is weak. The cells in the old man’s body can no longer provide him with division in the direction of evolution, and the body functions of children before the age of three are not yet perfect, and it is extremely easy to become diseased after taking heterogeneous metals that exceed the threshold of the body. .

The base system has studied this threshold, and it is still studying it even now.

It's just a pity that no matter whether the research focuses on the elderly or children, no variation rules have been found, and it is even more difficult to study because of the gradually passing away scientists in the base.

Not long ago, Su Jingtong's last colleague also passed away, and Su Jingtong has already undertaken experiments for several projects.

There is a shortage of talents, and Su Jingtong has no skills to spare. Even so, he still has to be busy with quality education in the base.

Su Jingtong attaches great importance to this - "If the last spiritual world of human beings also dies and withers, then it is real death, no different from walking dead."

What Su Jingtong didn't say is that the hunting team that can still go out now, before they found out, are all considered as new races with excellent physical fitness.

Based on Su Jingtong's analysis, they even have the ability to fight against robots.

It's just that robots outside the city are rare, and they don't come across once in 800 years. The thinking of the hunting team is still stuck in the original idea.

Either evolve into a new human being comparable to a robot, or contract an incurable disease, and die in pain and weirdness.

Su Jingtong didn't want to classify human beings in this way.

He cannot allow people to be increasingly polluted by heterogeneous metals, and finally become an existence that cannot get rid of their dependence.

It is even more impossible to leave the fate of human beings to such probabilistic issues to decide.

Su Jingtong doesn't believe in the hand of fate.

This is not useless kindness, but the way humanity can survive, even though there is no way out yet.

but--

Su Jingtong said: "This is the last isolated island of mankind, and it cannot be destroyed in my hands."

At least now, he really waited for humans from outside the base.

After listening to Su Jingtong's words, it is hard for players and audience not to be surprised by Su Jingtong's thoughts.

[Hiss, Su Jingtong, this NPC is set up absolutely. ]

[This is the first time I saw such an innovative NPC, is the system going to be updated again? ]

[Fuck, I want to convince myself not to trust the copy NPC, any NPC with a sense of existence is a villain, but, but the NPC created by the system this time, his words made me change my mind a little QAQ]

[I'm about to be convinced by this NPC. It's worthy of being the leader's NPC. Fortunately, I'm not in this instance. ]

[Yes, this NPC is very contagious, and it will definitely be popular if you become an orator (emphasis error x]

Compared with others, Qi Wuyuan was much calmer. After listening to Su Jingtong's words, he asked, "I have a question."

He looked straight at Su Jingtong and said, "How did you stay here from the beginning of the foundation to the present?"

Su Jingtong's time seems to have been suspended from the beginning until he was close to 30 years old.

——At the age of 28, it happened to be what Su Jing himself said, the time when he first discovered the giant tree.

However, nearly a hundred years have passed since then, and his companions have all died one by one. Only he still holds the real power of this base, and he still looks so young.

After hearing Qi Wuyuan's question, Su Jingtong didn't feel offended.

He raised his hand and touched his heart, never hiding his specialness.

Su Jingtong could feel his own heartbeat, and he said, "The reason is very simple."

"The tree of life needs a seed."

For plants, it is their nature to reproduce and spread seeds.

Even this tree of life is no exception.

Su Jingtong said: "I voluntarily used my heart to foster the seeds of the tree of life."

——Otherwise, how could the Tree of Life agree to a group of humans to coexist with it.

"It is also because of the seeds that I can live with this appearance until now."

Qi Wuyuan looked at Su Jingtong, no one knew what Qi Wuyuan really thought.

After a while, Qi Wuyuan said: "What do you want us to do?"

Su Jingtong hooked the corners of his mouth and relaxed a little.

He said: "In fact, metallization pollution syndrome is not untreatable."

Su Jingtong looked at Qi Wuyuan, and slightly revealed his true purpose: "Our purpose is the same."

Su Jingtong didn't believe Qi Wuyuan's fabricated identity statement, but he didn't expose it.

Qi Wuyuan also knew the real words that Su Jingtong delivered.

The reason why Su Jingtong helped Qi Wuyuan modify the information in the testing room, and called them over to tell the secret of the base, was because he knew——

Qi Wuyuan wants to destroy the tower.

In other words, Gaota and Qi Wuyuan reached an agreement.

Looking at Su Jingtong who was smiling and not speaking, Qi Wuyuan's eyes sank.

He thought to himself: Su Jingtong has always known that Gaota knows the exact location of the human base like the back of his hand.

Su Jingtong remembered very clearly that he had a relationship with Qi Wuyuan a long time ago.

"In the tenth ring block of the city, there is a clinic with a pennant [Life and Death], that clinic will not reject any patients for any reason."

Su Jingtong looked at Qi Wuyuan and said: "I hope you can enter the tenth ring block in the city and find this special clinic, so that you can help cure the patients in the base."

This is what Su Jingtong wants the players to help him accomplish. After he finished his purpose, he made a promise: "If you successfully find the clinic, the base can provide you with a chance to enter the second ring of the mechanical city."

In fact, Su Jingtong's decision was not easy to make.

He said that the opportunity for the base to enter the second ring is very rare, and once it is opened, the loss will be huge.

If this loss cannot be made up from other things, the base will never be able to start this project.

The agreement between Qi Wuyuan and Gaota included the condition of "leading mankind".

Naturally, he would not ignore what happened in the human base, not to mention that there are still humans in the base who have evolved successfully enough to deal with constant robots.

However, Qi Wuyuan did not show the slightest concern for the base on the surface.

He calmly said to Su Jingtong, "What do you mean by successfully finding a clinic?"