Chapter 5.07 The Origin of the Apostles, North and South City-States
Apostles are the highest-level node creatures born on the earth after the arrival of the Pandora era.
They are the core organisms that are ultimately formed after the genes of all biological communities in a large ecological area converge! This is an inevitable product of the natural development of Pandora Field's ecology.
However, the birth of most of the apostles on earth is inseparable from the final madness of mankind at the end of the world!
In the timeline opened up by Luo Hongxing's team, the travelers collected a large amount of information in this plane. A small team once arrived in the Great Lakes region of North America, where they determined that the apostle "Billion Eyes" existed in the Great Lakes region.
This apostle is very strange, similar to the mirage hyphae in the Meicang River Basin, and it is difficult to see the existence of its central body.
Every creature that enters the area will have an extra strange eye like a tumor. A deer running on the ground will have such an eye on its neck, a bird flying in the sky may have an eye on its belly, or even somewhere on some trees.
Eyes will also appear.
These eyes are all capable of observation, but where does the collected information end up?
According to the measurement of genetic radiation, it seems to be in the center of the Great Lakes. What is strange about this center is that there are a large number of stranded ships.
On one of the timelines dedicated to adventure.
Sun Luoxi Zhongqing (female) led the team to arrive here and found the laboratory under the mud. In the laboratory, some living brain tissue was found. This may have been accidentally metabolized by "Billion Eyes" when it moved its body.
Part of brain tissue.
When Sun Luoxi discovered this brain tissue, he was parasitized on the spot. This thing's life radiation is very strong, and it will take away the body immediately after being parasitized.
Sun Luoxi withdrew from the area before she was completely infected, lay down in the life-support capsule, and was in a coma for forty days. The system directly connected the "Human Emperor" life radiation effect from the Pandora space bubble and pulled her back. And she
After waking up, he immediately described the memories gained during the fusion.
The predecessor of the "Billion Eyes" of the Great Lakes was a human being, a human doctor from North America. Let's call him "Dr. Strange".
Sun Luoxi: "The memory is very vague, but very clear. Dr. Qi went to some laboratories with biochemical symbols and made some exciting discoveries. He has declared righteously many times in public that human technology can resist the Pandora Field.
The refraction effect of life. This doctor seems to have been hailed as a scientific beacon by the mainstream media and served as the chief health officer, but...
Memories show that he maintained quite close contacts with some powerful oligarchs in private. This kind of contact is different from his announcement to the outside world of ‘leading the world to fight against XX’, but rather an excited exposition of some discoveries!”
[HeLa Project: In January 1951, scientists collected a cervical cancer cell line from a woman. This cell line was then divided indefinitely in laboratories around the world within decades, as experiments required, and became immortal.
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eternal life!
When human civilization discovered that Pandora Field could not be solved.
At the top of human society, the giants who control the Internet, energy, and food have begun to consider changing their form to survive in the apocalypse.
Lifespan is developed when life needs iterative evolution. When iterative evolution becomes stable on a certain route, the lifespan of species will gradually be extended. However, higher life forms in the Earth system still have lifespan limits.
In the early stages of evolution, early life was very arbitrary about its lifespan. The most primitive coral polyps could live for thousands of years.
In an earlier period, when the earth had not yet oxidized and was covered with thick bacterial blankets, carbon-based life was immortal.
Pandora's field allows the nerve cells of higher organisms such as humans to refract into lower organisms, resulting in a fusion that makes all human beings uneasy.
But Dr. Qi also discovered in the petri dish that human lifespan can obtain the benefits of unrestricted lower life: cell telomeres are greatly extended, and physical immortality is no longer a problem, as long as a way to preserve thinking and consciousness can be found.
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Memory reading is interrupted here.
However, with in-depth investigation on multiple timelines, underground laboratories were discovered in North America, South America, the Indian subcontinent, Africa, and Southern Europe, and in the relevant places mentioned in these memories. All laboratories also "happened" to be
It is the area where the apostles are based.
In the final stage of human civilization, those at the top of society who occupied resources and were freer than all living beings also started the final madness.
Perhaps, they may have needed such an answer all along. The so-called believe that the earth's resources are consumed too much, and the population needs to be reduced to restore balance to the earth! The group of "gong" people who proposed such a "reduction plan" certainly do not want to reduce themselves
, but let others reduce.
When humanity is on the verge of destruction and needs to survive, the designated survival plan is for a few elites to take enough girls, well, maybe a few boys, to get on the ark.
Some people feel that as long as they survive, they can survive on behalf of mankind. Because, they are the "chosen people".
Wei Keng (Zhen Xinzheng), who was leaning on the mechanical beast, after reading Bai Linglu's information, took a breath and said: "In other words, some of the thinking of the previous generation's civilization still survives in the individual apostles.
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Dimensional space bubble
Bai Linglu: "Yes, so there is also a power struggle between them."
Bai Linglu waved his hand and summoned the interface, further describing the various scenarios of the end of the world for Mr. Wei.
Scene: On the vast South American plateau, bare sticks one to two hundred meters high stand on top. There are water stains on the top of the tower, and green lines flow on the sticks.
This is a giant tower built by giant termite-like creatures. Groundwater is extracted to irrigate the green tower body. After the algae on the tower body expands, it is carried into the cave of the tower by the termites, forming the flowing lines on the giant tower.
This tower group was built by the South American Tallin Nest Master (Apostle).
In the seventeenth stage of the expedition, the exploration team of our own civilization arrived here. They looked up at the tower group and had a very brief exchange with the apostle as time and space explorers.
The apostle's suspiciously human mind responded to the inquiries of time and space explorers: Its arrival (Pandora's Field) did not eliminate anything, on the contrary, it added a lot.
After Wei Keng heard this apostle's answer, he was stunned and thought for the first time: "What has been added?"
But in an instant, I suddenly understood that this was not an increase in "people like me", but from the perspective of "those people". And the increase in the perspective of "those people" had nothing to do with me?
Wei Keng smiled and whispered: "What does the dream created by 996 have to do with the people who participated in 996?" (sarcasm)
Just as the space bubbled up, Bai Linglu paused, opened her mouth, and wanted to explain:
"What I mean is that I want you to understand, as an apostle-level existence, your position in this world." This final introductory sentence was silenced by Bai Linglu.
But suddenly, Bai Linglu felt a "not bad" feeling in her heart. She felt that if Wei Keng understood it like this, the entire Pandora world might have more interesting, um, different results.
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For two weeks, nothing happened.
At least for Wei Keng (Zhen Xin Zheng), there is nothing else to do but study.
So nothing extra was done.
Supplement: Wei Keng in the Kongtuan plane also has this virtue.
But on this planet, in the eastern ocean area, the coral and sulfur-iron communities in the seawater are competing with each other.
On the other hand, there was no "Zhen Xin Zheng" name in the outing team organized by the Jianye Institute of Southern Studies.
It was six o'clock in the morning on August 23, 145. Wei Keng was still dazed in bed, planning to continue to recuperate until the alarm was set at 7:30.
The team organized by the college has already set off towards the rising sun.
At nine o'clock in the morning, under the Purple Mountain Observatory, Dean Wang Lexi looked at the outstanding students selected this time and was quite proud. Next, the team waiting for the visitors from the north arrived.
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Build Ye in the south and Wuse in the north.
These are the two largest human city-state groups in the eastern part of the World Island in the Pandora era.
The fact that most of the industry, population, and science and technology centers in Jianye are combined in a super large central city is due to its special historical and geographical factors.
The Five-Color Alliance in the north was formed 160 years ago by five industrial cities. These five industrial cities are all connected through the waterway network in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.
Historically, when Jianye City in the south began to use the protective effect of human communities.
The northern garrison also began organizational integration, completing production restoration in five cities, and then radiating influence to the North China Plain.
However, due to the limitation of river traffic, the five cities in the north developed more evenly. And when the human forces in the south and the north went their separate ways, the Five-Color Alliance still occupied the orthodox elements for a long time! That is, it inherited the legal system of the previous regime.
elements.
However, this orthodoxy and accompanying arrogance are gradually dissolving.
With the development of Jianye City, and the Five-Color Alliance's defense line at Yanjing being consumed by the unstoppable genetic community in the Bohai Sea region, a large amount of resources were consumed and most of the energy was involved.
In the past few decades, the Five Colors Alliance has interacted with Jianye on an equal footing.
The two sides conduct youth personnel exchanges every four years, and gradually send people from the south to the north, instead of sending people to each other in turn.
This time it happened to be the turn of the Northern Five Colors Alliance to send an exchange team towards Jianye.
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On the side of the Five Color Alliance,
The team of 225 people, combined with a large number of mechanical beasts, passed through the harassment of a large number of genetic communities in the Huaihe River area along the way, and finally traveled to the southern civilization zone.
This group of nobles in the north are now in a dusty state.
Just like in the 21st century, no matter what kind of clothes you wear, they will get dirty if you ride on a tractor.
This is not a comic show, dust is the norm.
But even though the dust is flying,
It is also difficult to conceal the youthful atmosphere of these young master trainers.
Teenagers and junior high school students do not need any cosmetics, their skin is natural and transparent. And the trainers who have completed life symbiosis with the mechanical beasts have strong vitality.
Chen Hefen, the northern king-level trainer, is a man who looks only thirty, but is actually forty-five years old. When he met with Wang Lexi, the southern trainer representative, the two unfurled their flags together and completed the photo in front of the spotlight.
Photography.
Although the two major blocs, the North and the South, are secretly competing against each other, they still have to put on a smile and maintain various connections. Just like the relationship between the EU, Britain and France before the Great Disintegration.
However, the younger generation does not have this awareness.
As the team leader, the first thing Qiu Mengfei saw was the team leader from the north, a tall girl. Her face was covered with some black smoke from the steam train, but the slight dirt did not affect her natural beauty at all.
And when he looked at her, she also looked at him.
The girl seemed to think this was a challenge and looked at her with fearlessness. This added a confident and fiery temperament to her already beautiful appearance.
(If Wei Keng were here, he would interpret the expression in the eyes of this northern girl as: What are you looking at? And no matter how beautiful the girl is, once Mr. Wei conjures up the Northeast dialect like this, then...)
Qiu Mengfei was stunned for a moment at this sharp look, and then smiled.
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The reaction of the young people when they first met was naturally in the eyes of the team leader.
Wang Lexi looked at these enthusiastic young people with a smile on her lips and couldn't help but said: "It's really good to be young."
Chen Hefen: "Yes, they are the future."
A few dozen kilometers away to the south,
Wei Keng got up and went to school every day to look for his tutor. But he saw a sign saying "Closed Today" was hung on the door of the teaching hall.
Wei Keng patted his forehead and said, "Well, I should have known earlier."
Exchange scholars from the north are coming, which is a big event.
If it is an organization with clear division of labor among departments, no matter how big the external events are, they will not affect other departments.
For example, this is the case for the Unified Army. When the Battle of Southern Gansu began, full power was handed over to the military logistics department that assigned tasks. However, the operations of other Zhanjiang areas, Zhuhai-Xinjiang areas, and various railway stations were not affected. Staying in the north
The "Zhen Xin Zheng" who was studying did not put down his study tasks just because the fighting in the southern Gansu war zone was in full swing, and went south with a semi-finished mechanical beast to support him.
But Jianye College is not like this.
Technical exchanges between the North and the South have affected people in various departments. No, the instructor responsible for answering his questions has closed his door. Obviously, rather than answering the requests for advice from non-elite disciples, it is more necessary to prepare energy and pay attention to the elite disciples from the north. Find out more
The gap between the two sides is more meaningful to them.
After Wei Keng wandered around the school building three times, he reluctantly withdrew.
Bai Linglu just popped up and "solved" Wei Keng who was rejected: "Actually, they didn't talk about anything in the north, they just discussed capturing the weakened apostle Tianshu Long. If you think this place is not
To give you face, how about we lead the fleet north and directly destroy the East China Sea continental shelf biological community!"
Wei Keng glanced at Bai Linglu: "This is a good idea, it can help you regain face. But, you know me, I will never work hard for the sake of face."
Bai Linglu: "Ha, ha, oh, that's it. I just made a suggestion, as long as you don't mind."
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Wei Keng was fearless in the face of reality. So reality quickly taught the thick-skinned Mr. Wei Keng another lesson.
Being plain means being marginalized. Especially when some more dazzling centers appear.
In the afternoon, Wei Keng was pulled up by the student union to meet the exchange students from the north (as a foil). At the exchange meeting, Wei Keng was bored at this time, so he checked the two plot characters that the system repeatedly emphasized.
Qiu Mengfei, Su Lingshuang.
After Wei Keng saw their plots in other timelines, he said "hmm", became temporarily interested, and decided to say hello to them.
So I squeezed in, preparing to say a few omens to Qiu Mengfei, "Beware of the backlash of the Heavenly Killing Dragon in the future."
As a result, as soon as he said "Senior", Qiu Mengfei politely stopped and said, "Junior, I have a lot of things going on here today." Then he said goodbye to Wei Keng.
Simply rejecting people thousands of miles away caused Wei Keng to return from high spirits to social phobia.
Mr. Wei left in embarrassment.
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Of course, what Mr. Wei didn't know was that Su Lingshuang happened to see his sudden whim, and it was under Su Lingshuang's glance that Wei Keng left Qiu Mengfei.
When Qiu Mengfei stood with Su Lingshuang again.
Su Lingshuang said leisurely: "There are many flatterers around you."
Qiu Mengfei paused and said, "No, that's not the case. He's also a new classmate. He wants to ask me something, but he's too busy today."
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Before returning to his dormitory.
Wei Keng (Zhen Xinzheng) stretched out his hand, took a piece of grass hanging from the roof, and said slowly: "I am an ordinary person, in the Kongtuan plane, in the Pandora plane, in the
The same is true in Jianye, and the same is true in the commanding areas."
Mr. Wei has finally eliminated all plans to stir up the main plot.