SHEEP

Yu Yili died.

He died more decently than the man in the reserve, at least he looked safe and sound, without much scary ferocity.

While helping his clothes to be tidy and symmetrical, Pei Xiangjin joked, "He gave himself so many injections every day for the past few days, probably because he wanted to look good when he left."

Yi Heye didn't say anything, just came to Pei Xiangjin's side silently, and handed him the stack of notes he found in the cage.

Pei Xiangjin froze for a moment, opened the notebook, and saw a page of delicate fonts——

These are the medical notes written by Yu Yili before he left.

The first part is the anatomy report of the man in the reserve, which describes in detail the characteristics and changes of the various organs he observed; and makes some conclusions, and the second part is his clinical observation notes during this period, recording different doses of In the case of medication, the different reactions of one's own body give some suggestions and references for medication; the third part is an instruction manual for Pei Xiangjin and Yi Heye, which introduces in detail the usage and dosage of the medicine sent from outside the wall It also introduces in detail how to rescue yourself in different emergencies.

There was no extra provocative words, and he didn't even take the trouble to copy a mirror note by hand to achieve symmetry like he usually does. It can be seen that by the end of the writing, his physical strength was completely exhausted, and his writing became lighter and lighter. .

But at the end of the entire notebook, he still solemnly wrote four words——

"Be safe."

When scrolling to the end, Pei Xiangjin still couldn't hold back, and hugged Yu Yili in his arms collapsed.

This was the first time Yi Heye saw Pei Xiangjin collapse emotionally. This usually calm, cunning, and unpredictable old fox was crying unguardedly at this moment.

But this was in the cabin after all, he didn't even dare to cry loudly, he just hugged that cold body, sobbing suppressedly, the low sound of crying seemed to be crazily hitting his body, knocking him to pieces. A puddle of fragments, and finally fell powerlessly to the ground.

"It would be fine if I didn't bring him..." Pei Xiangjin cried with self-blame, "It would be fine if I stopped him..."

Yi Heye was also so sad that his eyes turned red. He thought of what happened to Jian Yunxian, as if he had regretted it countless times. It would have been better if he hadn't been to Area A—he understood Pei Xiangjin's feelings too well.

At this time, Yu Yili was lying quietly in Pei Xiangjin's arms, his expression seemed a little uneasy and sad.Compared with the tragic death in the battle, his departure seemed extraordinarily peaceful and ordinary.

Before coming here, everyone thought that what they would face after crossing this wall would be the raging flames of war and ruthless fighting.They even thought that someone among them would die from stray bullets and artillery fire, but they didn't expect that there were no vicious enemies, no hail of bullets all over the sky, such a heavy death would come to this small cabin in such a peaceful way.

The calm only amplified the sadness.

Pei Xiangjin stayed by Yu Yili's side all night, and after crying, he just sat there in a daze.It wasn't until dawn that the whistle sounded at the station, and Yi Heye had no choice but to persuade him in a low voice: "It's the station."

After several seconds, Pei Xiangjin managed to recover from the stagnation, nodded slightly, and slowly carried Yu Yili into the cage.

The moment Yu Yili died, that capable and stalwart Pei Xiangjin seemed to be extinguished here too.

Arrived at the station, after a long journey, this time it is no longer a temporary stop along the way, but the terminal - the so-called headquarters.

As the sound of the whistle stopped abruptly, Yi Heye checked his equipment and cheered himself up.

The moment the warehouse door in front of him slowly opened, he knew that the final decisive battle was coming.

Pei Xiangjin has already contacted the inside of the wall. Soon, someone will pick up Yu Yili and the people in this car. At this moment, he is about to step into the door that hides the truth.

Maybe it's because the emotions along the way have been exhausted. At this time, he looked at the vast expanse of the door, and his mood was indeed extremely calm and calm.

At this point, he had already forgotten whether it was worth it or not, and he had completely forgotten why he had to come here in the first place.

That's it, he thought helplessly, but he didn't feel too much pressure.

The previous platform was not much different from the previous ones, and it was not as peculiar as the headquarters he had imagined. Yi Heye even wondered if he had heard the wrong site, and this was not his final goal.

Behind him, the envoys continuously carried out cages from the spaceship. Yi Heye didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly carried his companions down. Just as they put their cages on the ground, his vision suddenly blurred.

Yi Heye thought it was because he was too tired and dazzled, but when he looked up again, he found that the spaceship and the envoys behind him suddenly disappeared, and the platform in front of him was only a vast expanse of white, and the ground was white. The top of the head is also white, the snow-white space has no boundaries, and the field of vision extends infinitely towards the surroundings, and there is no end in sight, nor anything else.

At this time, in this space, except for the cage with his companions beside him, he is the only one left.

Yi Heye has experienced too many storms and waves, and he can barely remain calm in the face of such things.He immediately held the handle of the knife behind him, maintaining a high level of alert.

Such a situation would theoretically not exist in the natural world, which made Inexplicable Yi Heye think of Area A, those illusions that confused his eyes.

Could it be that his brain-computer interface has been hacked again?Why is this so-called safest technology always easily cracked at the most critical time?

Yi Heye touched the roots of his ears angrily, looked around vigilantly, and kept an eye on every movement around him.

Fortunately, he experienced almost once in Area A, and no matter how many emergencies, Yi Heye was more or less prepared.

At this moment, an electronically synthesized voice with a strong sense of threat suddenly sounded from all around: "It's finally delivered."

Yi Heye looked back immediately, but couldn't find where the voice came from.

What's here?Do you mean the cage in his hand?

He leaned vigilantly towards the cage, as if instinctively trying to protect them with his body.

Immediately afterwards, although he didn't see anything, he inexplicably felt something approaching suddenly, staring at his face for a long time.

Yi Heye tensed up, because he couldn't see the other party, he didn't dare to act rashly.

"Is this the most popular 'body'?" The electronic voice seemed to be thinking about something, and said, "It turns out that human aesthetics look like this."

It was only at this time that Yi Heye realized that what he was talking about was not the other cages, but himself.

The most popular he said should be that in the ISSAC selection, he relied on his face to pass five trials and kill six generals, and even set off a small wave of enthusiasm.

"I heard that you are difficult to handle, and I am afraid that you will damage your body casually. It took a lot of effort to get you here." The electronic voice said.

It turned out that I had been targeted by these people a long time ago. No wonder some people came out to target him one after another. No wonder I touched the so-called headquarters all the way. The process was almost unimpeded, and I didn't encounter any obstacles or difficulties at all.

Yi Heye didn't speak, but just listened with pricked ears.

"Your body will be mine from now on," said the voice.

This voice has no emotion, it is neither cold nor warm.Yi Heye thought for a while and asked, "Why did you choose me?"

The voice didn't seem to be in a hurry to do anything to him, and even chatted with him leisurely: "Because according to our data, your face is very popular among humans, and all physiological parameters are normal. Exactly what I want from my body.”

This seemed to be a compliment to him, but Yi Heye couldn't be happy at all.

He raised the mechanical arm of his left hand and said, "But I am physically disabled."

He felt something staring at his left arm carefully for a long time, and then his voice sounded from his ear again: "But the data tells me that it won't affect your daily life, and it won't affect your life at the same time. Popularity points cause points to drop, and even 80% of netizens think 'this prosthetic looks lewd', we interpret this as positive feedback."

Without blushing, he praised Yi Heye's prosthetic limb for being lecherous, but Yi Heye couldn't listen any more. Taking advantage of this guy who always answered his questions, he quickly changed the topic: "What are you going to say to me now?"

"Empty your consciousness, mechanize your body against radiation, and load my data," the voice replied.

"Isn't that just killing me?" Yi Heye asked, "Aren't all the humans whose bodies you occupy are completely killed by you?"

"Yes." The voice asked calmly and normally, "Does it matter?"

As if wanting to prove something to him, the white in front of him suddenly flickered.The moment Yi Heye drew his sword in response, a floating screen with a monitoring perspective suddenly rose around him.

He frowned and looked around - on the screen closest to him, there was a large factory workshop, but it was not filled with product parts, but human beings with their eyes closed.

This should be the picture of the body processing factory. Each of them has a long data cable inserted behind the brain-computer interface. The so-called consciousness seems to be taken away in this way.

The other screen shows the screen inside the wall, which is countless cameras caught in the streets, restaurants, shopping malls, and even residents' homes. Countless faces are recorded on the screen, and next to each face There are some real-time data. Yi Heye took a closer look. These should all be live broadcasts on the human network. These data are the so-called popularity based on feedback from comments.

Why are they free to hack into human chips?Why do they have so many permission to broadcast live in the wall?Yi Heye felt something faintly wrong.

"In fact, in addition to the use of the body, the value of human beings is also reflected in many places. We have many experiments that need to be carried out on human beings."

As the sound fell, a lot of video materials of human experiments appeared on the screen in front of me——

The title of the first experiment is "Radiation Tolerance Experiment". The giant mechanical claws in the video injected different drugs into the caged humans, and then put them into high-intensity radiation in batches for observation. Yi Heye watched their seven orifices bleed, their skin peeled off, and they died in extreme pain without realizing what happened.

Yi Heye thought of Yu Yili and felt a little out of breath.

The picture of the second experiment is very old, and the title is "Development and Application of Brain-Computer Interface".The people in the video were forcibly implanted with chips one by one, and were subjected to electric shocks, water immersion, etc. Some of them could not control their limbs twitching, while others lost their minds and became lunatics talking nonsense.

It turns out that the brain-computer interface is a technology developed by them.Yi Heye remembered the previous news, which clearly stated that these technologies were all passed from Area A, and they were the gospel of human progress.

The third experiment was the consciousness transplant surgery that is said to be able to bring the dead back to life. He saw Chen Sang, Fang Chunyang, and countless people who repeatedly came to their door because of their corrupt bodies, begging them to perform repair operations on themselves.

All this and more.

Yi Heye suddenly felt a chill. Even though he knew that his question was meaningless, he still couldn't help asking:

"Doing such a thing, don't you have even the slightest bit of uneasiness in your conscience?"

Regarding this question, the voice obviously couldn't understand at all: "Why do you think so? Do you humans feel guilty about the poultry raised in captivity? On the contrary, I think humans should be grateful for our raising."

poultry?Breeding?When the other party used this example as an analogy, Yi Heye already vaguely felt that something was wrong.

In the next second, the screen in front of him gathered a huge map. In the map, there were five concentric circles surrounded by a circle in the middle of a small and inconspicuous circle.

This is the first time for Yi Heye to view all this from such a macro perspective. Before that, he never thought that the target-shaped world they live in is so small and inconspicuous. He didn't even think about the shape of a circle. Besides, there is such a vast world.

There are many complicated parameters marked on the map. Yi Heye took a closer look and found in horror that, except for that small circle, the outside world was flooded with extremely high concentrations of radiation.

"In order to keep you in captivity, we specially made a radiation-proof wall to isolate you, and regularly provide you with technology that can be used for social development, so that you can live without worry inside the wall. To this point, you Shouldn't you be grateful?"

Looking at the videos passing by in front of him one by one, the cognition that Yi Heye had built up for more than 20 years seemed to collapse in an instant.

He suddenly felt that people who lived in the target world like himself were indeed like livestock that were randomly raised in captivity. They were observed, raised, and slaughtered without knowing it, but until they died, they would think that the people in the enclosure What you see is the whole world.

"You are just our sheep in the sheepfold." The voice asked without emotion, "If the shepherd wants to kill the sheep, does he still need the consent of the sheep?"

The author has something to say:

Everyone’s conjectures about the E area before are too exciting, I’m afraid that my own brain holes can’t be put on the table, I hope this kind of truth will not make you feel dull qwq