Chapter 92
The picture is broken.
After a period of darkness, firefly-like points of light rose up. The hollow mechanical echo echoed in his ears. Zhang Cishun stood in the center of the darkness. Every light point rising into the sky was a broken memory.
Kumar stood beside Zhang Cishun.
He stretched out his palm and watched the light spots passing through his palm.
"This is my first rebirth." He said: "I have gone through this process more than two thousand times, but only the first time has the deepest impression." A person's first time is the most impressive
.
"Every light point here is a memory. Look at the ones that are extinguished after liftoff. Those are memories that were destroyed by the people during the transfer process."
Zhang Cishun looked up. As time went by, the light points became more and more... More and more are extinguished. Only about three-quarters of the light spots finally floated smoothly and rose to the highest altitude as if they were about to go out at any time, and then went out in a sudden flash.
As the sky becomes brighter and brighter, the feeling of ascending from the deep sea becomes clearer. The kind that gets rid of depression and restraint and becomes brighter and brighter.
Until the last moment.
The whole world lights up.
"Everything is normal at the moment, data recording. Look at my hand, what is it?" A researcher in white asked Kumar, who opened his eyes.
"Three."
"What now?"
"Six."
"Okay, please follow the movement of my fingers with your eyes."
"Look here...here...here..."
"Everything is normal. Welcome back, Mr. Kumar ."
The researcher put away his things, took off the mask on his face, showed a clear smile to Kumar, and stretched out his hand.
The scene freezes at this moment.
Zhang Cishun looked at the female researcher's smile, and finally his eyes fell on the identity tag on her chest.
"Empty."
"Is she one of the two qualified twins?" Zhang Cishun asked.
"Yes, sister. She has the highest degree of ability development among the two, and she is also one of the people in charge of promoting and improving the plan." Kumar answered.
"Is there any reason for two and a half centuries and two thousand rebirths?" Zhang Cishun asked.
Two hundred and fifty years, more than two thousand rebirths, an average of more than eight times a year. This number may not seem like a big number, but in reality, it is very high!
"You seem to be sure that I will answer?" Kumar did not answer Zhang Cishun's question immediately, but asked instead.
"This is the memory space, not the data space. Here we have no means of attacking each other. And your 'body' outside is being torn apart by me, and your demise is doomed. As for what you said, I am sure you will answer, Actually not. For me, whether you answer or not, I will eventually find the answer in the next journey of memory. As long as you still remember." Zhang Cishun said calmly.
"What if you don't find the answer from here?" Kumar said, but soon he shook his head and denied his words: "No, it seems that I am overthinking, even if you don't find it from me You will also find the answer in the core of the fire."
When Kumar just spoke, he remembered that he had said that his memory was stored in the core matrix of the fire, and reading the memory file was very important to Zhang Cishun. It is not a difficult thing to say, and even...in terms of efficiency, it is much faster than it is now.
"Most of the more than two thousand rebirths were experimental in nature. I have only died once, and that was the only time. The one we just watched." Kumar answered Zhang Cishun's previous question: "I am the experimenter , is also a test product. What City No. 88 needs is a complete blueprint plan, but in the time period we are seeing, the blueprint plan is not perfect." "But it seems that
your birth was successful." Zhang Ci Shun said.
The sound fell, and the frozen picture began to move.
Zhang Cishun and Kumar looked at the screen. When they saw the resurrected 'Kuma' put his cold hand on Sora's and was pulled up from the bed forcefully, Kumar said: "A screw is the happiest person.
" That's when he didn't realize he was a screw."
Kumar said something that seemed completely irrelevant. And there seems to be no explanation.
"From the day I was born, the day I opened my eyes, no matter the concepts I was instilled or everything I came into contact with, they all told me that I am a human being. But in fact... I am not." "I was born with shackles,
or It is said that all clones are born with shackles."
"That shackle is called life span." Kumar said.
"I came from the cells of the original body. Although the cultivated individual is composed of brand-new cells, it only looks brand-new. It is not inside. No one knows which gene or thing records the number of cell divisions. The only thing we know is that even if it is a newly born clone, although the cell life span on the surface is brand new, the indelible records inside clearly record the 'life span' of the original body." "In other words
, In other words, every time you open your eyes, even though you are using a new body, it starts from the day when the cells were separated from the original body. If the original body is forty years old, then the day when the clone is born is Forty years old. If the cells used are collected from the original body that is about to expire, then the lifespan of the clone will follow the original body." "We have done extreme experiments. The target of that experiment was a person who was about to die
. The cells of the original body that died of old age, we used those cells to cultivate a young body, but unfortunately, in less than twenty-four hours after the original body of the experimental body died naturally, the clone also died quickly. Natural death "
It was reported by the cells that he died of natural causes."
"We were unable to rescue him because any rescue measures were ineffective. We could only watch helplessly as the living organs died in an instant. He died very quickly. Calm, no pain."
"But you know, that was the time when I was most scared, because I was also a clone. But the difference is that my original body died of illness and radiation sickness. He also participated in Immortality plan, so I don’t know when I will die, maybe the next day, maybe the next moment, maybe the next second. In short, I felt like I would die at any time at that time..." "But you are still alive now, anyway
. It’s not due to the longevity plan, so what kind of technological breakthrough happened?” Zhang Cishun asked.
When he just listened to Kumar's words, he thought about a question. If according to what he said, the lifespan of the clones will follow the remaining lifespan of the original body, then no matter how the clones develop or how many they are, when the original body dies naturally ' time, then it means that all clones will die at a similar time period. This was not what the blueprint planned, and the fact that Kumar is still alive proves that the shackles were lifted before his natural death.
Kumar did not answer Zhang Cishun's question, but looked at the memory fragment in front of him. He could no longer remember the details, but these fragments helped him recall everything.
It's an amazing feeling.
"Looking back at the history of human development and evolution, you will find that when humans have a self, the evolution of the self stops. Instead, it is the evolution of technology that is promoted along with development." "It can be said that from a certain point of view
, To a certain extent, after human evolution reaches a certain level, a single path diverges, the individual and the other. We cannot say that these two paths are completely opposite and do not intersect, but it is obvious that the evolution of human beings on the individual level The level of technology is far less rapid than that of representing 'others'." "
Humans used to create tools and use tools, but now people are so dependent on tools that... they give up their identity as 'humans' and become tools. Well, this You may not know it well now, but during the period before the end of the world, the discussion about mechanical ascension was quite popular in the human world. Therefore, prosthetics can often be seen on the streets." "When we eliminate
all technology, when you look back at humans themselves, you will actually find that humans have not continued to move forward on the path of individual evolution, but have encountered a threshold. This threshold is not originally high, but because the level of our technological development is too high, So... the threshold was raised abruptly."
"Natural selection is cruel."
"So... individual evolution is a disease in the eyes of technology. Since it is a disease, then... someone will naturally carry out it. Conquering, so to speak, is when human beings stand on a high platform and push themselves down again and again as they continue to move upward."
Zhang Cishun listened to Kumar's words silently, and only after he stopped did he interrupt and said: "Cancer?"
"Not relevant, cancer cells."
"So the shackles of the blueprint plan back then were the keys obtained from cancer cells?" Zhang Cishun asked.
"Yes, the cancer cells of the original body are still preserved in the laboratory. These cells are being carefully cultivated and used as seeds for my body to cultivate." The picture in front of me dimmed, and just as the two of them were talking
, Kung Fu, entering the next plot.
In his memory, Kumar was standing on a high building in City No. 88. There was a strong wind, but it was not naturally formed, but a jet of energy airflow. There is a huge flying device in the sky above the city. It doesn't look like a spaceship, but it's not an airplane either.
The shape is very strange, industrial-shaped, and looks like an alien. It is not aerodynamic, nor does it need to be aerodynamic, because all it needs is force to fly.
The propulsion is powerful enough to do anything it wants to do.
The words 101 were painted on the top of the aircraft, but it was somewhat faded. This fading was not natural fading, but was caused by scratches and friction.
"It came from the northwest, City 101. All the way east, it established the initial message channel when the chaos gradually subsided after the end of the world. City 88 was the penultimate stop in its plan. Its arrival made City 88 The city is no longer an isolated island, but integrated into the group."
"I was very excited at the time, but looking at it on a time scale, its arrival has brought heavy damage to City No. 88."
Zhang Cishun looked into the distance . The person who was handing over the cargo transportation at that place didn't understand why Kumar said this. But he was not in a hurry, because Kumar would definitely explain it to him.
"Humanity's voyage fleet has tens of thousands of ships. As a disaster response ship, it has given up all unnecessary functions. Its only advantage is that it is large. One ship of the voyage fleet can accommodate three fire ships." Three fire ships
. ?
Zhang Cishun silently thought about its appearance, and had to admit that it was really big.
"The voyage fleet aircraft took away almost all human beings. The reason why I use the word "almost" is because there are always some people who are not worthy of being taken away, some people are unwilling to leave, some people are incapable of leaving, and some people are not worthy of being taken away. People do not believe in the doomsday. These people formed the later Blue Star survivor group and were also the first aborigines of Numbered City." "The first aborigines did not have
much advanced knowledge, strong bodies and liberated minds. The only one The advantage is probably... being obedient. After all, those who are disobedient will die. At first, the aboriginal people began to rely on technological creations on a large scale, which was not a bad thing at the time, until... the end came. City No. 88 used to be isolated from the world. Isolated, so I don’t know what has become of the south. The arrival of Ship No. 101 opened a gap for City No. 88, and we exposed the coordinates." "Sounds a bit nonsense." Zhang Cishun said: "The coordinates
... ...It doesn’t make sense based on the technology at that time, right? It can all go to space..."
Kumar shook his head.
"Have you ever seen the Doomsday Beast?"
Zhang Cishun shook his head. Don't look at the pile of various information about the Doomsday Beast in his mind now, but these information are all in the form of text or oral narration, without pictures. Zhang Cishun Cishun couldn't even imagine it.
"It's like...the shadow of the human race. The less we are good at something, the better they are at it, and the better we are at something, the less good they are at something." "On the road of evolution, Doommon and humans
, It's like the relationship between reality and reflection. Human beings can never surpass Doomsday Beast in terms of individual power, and Doomsday Beast can never master technology." "If we use the word '
alive' to summarize the direction of human progress. "
Then the Doomsday Beast's code is-'Don't let humans live.'"
"It sounds funny, right, but that's the fact. Many Doomsday Beasts in the wilderness adhere to this code of action from beginning to end. We I don’t know how many numbered cities were destroyed in their hands, and the coordinates were not exposed to humans, but to them." "After that,
City No. 88 experienced its first attack by the Doomsday Beast."
"It was a heavy rain, a rain of insects that covered the sky and the sun."
"Everything was swept away, gnawed, and digested. If City No. 88 was not built on fire and in the If I had opened up enough permissions to retain enough 'fire seeds' before the disaster struck, City No. 88 would have ceased to exist."
Insect Rain?
Zhang Cishun imagined that scene, but couldn't imagine it anyway. But soon, he didn't need to think about it anymore, because...
"Look, they are coming."
Kumar's voice suddenly sounded.
Accompanied by the darkening sky and the dead buzzing.
"Before the end of the world, they had a very interesting name, chili peppers, which were edible. But the end of the world has changed the relationship between humans and them." (End of this chapter
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