The remaining six chips.
Yin Long’s true form.
Zero and Huang Liang have similar memories.
The reason why A00 has not been restored yet.
Missing people and panic in Mowu City.
Those weird and deformed creatures in the contaminated area, the flower in Xia Chuluo's hand.
And Lu Wen’s true identity…
many things.
It was like layers of fog, shrouding Lu Wen's mind.
It's not over yet, it's just begun.
Huang Liang has fallen into a deep sleep.
Lu Wen has controlled five military androids and is rushing here to protect Li Meng and Huang Liang.
There are many such androids now.
After the android riots, most androids were distrusted and now roamed the streets. When someone needed help, they would come to help, provided that person was willing to trust them.
The parliaments of nine cities are discussing referendums. The results of this referendum will determine whether the androids will stay or go.
In order to prevent the worst from happening, Lu Wen has secretly controlled some wandering androids to set off towards the no-man's land.
Leave the city in bits and pieces, trying not to attract attention.
One wave after another can probably be used to describe the current situation in Mowu City.
The disappearance has not yet been resolved.
Bad news came from West City again.
"There was a warehouse explosion in West City this morning. The materials accumulated in that warehouse were provided by us. The results of the explosion have already come out."
"Everyone, let's take a look, there's something fishy about this."
West City is currently the most chaotic city.
It's no surprise that there was an explosion.
But what was bombed was aid supplies, which was very strange.
These are some daily necessities, not firearms and ammunition.
Even some thugs who have not yet laid down their weapons know that their jobs cannot be blown up. Outside supplies are now very important to West City.
Even stranger.
The warehouse where the explosion occurred was guarded very strictly. Unrelated personnel could not enter at all, and there were no blind spots in the surveillance.
Even if there are really desperate thugs, it would be difficult to sneak in with a bomb.
The final result was also surprising.
"The West City side said that our batch of living supplies contains special bombs used by the Mowu City army. The shell fragments at the scene also have the number of our Mowu City army printed on them."
"What does that mean...we deliberately put bombs into daily necessities?"
This kind of thing is impossible even if you think about it.
There is no need for Mowu City to go through such huge troubles, provide supplies and hide bombs in the supplies. This is superfluous.
The two cities had no history of hostility before this, and both sides had always been friendly.
Even if Mowu City really wants to attack West City, it will be in line with the laws of modern warfare and directly destroy everything in West City with the force of thunder. The current resistance of West City is almost zero.
There is no need to resort to such low-level and disgusting methods.
"The council in West City is also very confused now, so they came to ask us."
"Their royal members have also returned from Versailles one after another and are currently appeasing the people."
"To appease the people?"
"I don't know which high-level executive in West City leaked this matter. Now the whole West City is spreading rumors that our city has ill intentions towards them and wants to invade while they are weak."
"That dilapidated city where even the basic social order has collapsed, why does it need to be invaded? Even if it is given to me, I don't want to manage it."
Both sides were confused.
However, the top management can remain rational and negotiate seriously.
But people at the bottom often don’t think so much, and they are easily led by others.
The explosion killed six people and injured 31 people. The surrounding buildings and roads were also more or less affected.
"The biggest question now is which of our units belongs to the bombs that caused the explosion."
"We must find out. Someone is being picky about stories. The time is very delicate now, especially in West City. They have already lost the city once. The people are very sensitive and can be easily provoked to hostility."
The city of West is currently in a state of exhaustion.
People are returning one after another. Most of those people were hiding in no-man's land or hiding in cold and old underground cities.
Lu Wen felt vaguely.
This inexplicable explosion may have a certain connection with these missing cases today.
Just a feeling, no evidence yet.
The two events seemed worlds apart.
…
at the same time.
Baker City’s no man’s land.
It was already six o'clock in the evening.
Zero took Lu Wen to a ruined city.
The city is in a polluted zone.
After so many years, most of the polluted areas have actually become normal.
Both of them are bionic people, and they are not worried about possible radiation effects.
"I know that when you were chasing a mercenary, you entered a polluted city full of weird plants." Zero said.
"This city too?"
"No, but there are some strange things in this city. This is where I woke up."
Standing on the road into the city, everything you see is desolate.
This city once had a glorious history.
It has an advantageous geographical location, good environmental conditions, all the necessary transportation conditions such as airports, train stations, and subways, complete water and electricity facilities, high population density, and buildings such as libraries, museums, and churches can be seen everywhere.
Prosperity always goes quickly.
Lu Wen saw that today’s urban roads are full of large and small craters.
It had been bombed.
There are not many records about this city in the data. Almost all of them are from before the war. After the war, this place was almost never mentioned.
Not long after entering the city.
The familiar warning appeared in Lu Wen's mind again.
[Attack intent detected]
[detected…]
[…]
Red text flashed across Lu Wen's mind again.
Last time in that city full of weird plants, the alarm in Lu Wen's body never stopped.
Later, Lu Wen discovered that those plants could indeed attack living creatures. The most terrifying plant was at the bottom of the lake, and the other plants seemed to be just descendants of that plant.
"There is also a lake in the very center of the city, which used to be a park."
Zero introduced Lu Wen as he walked.
Empty city.
Only her voice.
Today's evening is filled with crimson, and the rays of light are burning on the horizon, reflecting on the desolate and dilapidated city, giving it a different kind of beauty.
They didn't go far before they both stopped at the same time.
They heard another sound.
Very slowly.
With some friction.
There seemed to be some slow creature crawling on the ground.
The source of the sound was a collapsed museum beside the road.
This kind of museum is most popular among explorers. For a long time after the war, many people became rich overnight by digging for treasures in ruined cities. Those gold jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, and even the wreckage of crashed fighter planes. They were brought back to the nine major cities, and rich people were willing to pay high prices to buy them.
During that period, there was a craze no less than that of the gold rush a few hundred years ago. Later, as androids slowly took over the uninhabited city, and as the treasures became increasingly scarce, the craze slowly receded.
Lu Wen walked over slowly.
He stepped on the broken bricks, trying to be careful.
At the same time, he has always been wary of Zero. He has never thought of actually cooperating with Zero. Once Zero is useless, he will immediately get rid of this computer that poses a great threat to the world.
Number Zero is probably thinking about how to escape right now.
Lu Wen lifted a concrete slab riddled with bullet holes.
Then he saw the ugliest creature he had seen in two months since starting the game.
"This little guy looks pretty decent..."
Lu Wen didn't know how to describe this creature.
Before this, the ugliest creature he had ever seen was the blobfish. Lu Wen thought that thing might have offended its creator. It was pink in appearance and a little disgusting, like a swimming gelatinous substance.
But the thing in front of him successfully refreshed Lu Wen's lower limit of ugliness.
This can no longer be described as offending the Creator. It may be digging up the Creator's ancestral grave.
[Matching failed]
[Unable to estimate the outline]
[A creeping sarcoma]
This is the result given by the system.
Basketball size.
The word sarcoma really fits.
The appearance is dark red, the skin is like a thin film, and it is covered with dust. It has no limbs and no facial features. It is just a lump of soft flesh and blood, crawling and crawling at a very slow speed. For Lu Wen, There was no response when it arrived.
It is impossible to tell what this creature lives on and what it eats to grow.
"There should be no uglier creatures in the world."
Lu Wen said this.
Then he saw another creature.
It was the same lump of sarcoma, but the one was uglier. The body was divided into several sections, like a caterpillar that had lost its head, legs and feet. Every time it squirmed, you could see the movement of flesh and blood in the body.
"When I first woke up, I also saw these things. I was shocked at the time, because in my memory, there were no such creatures before the war." Zero said behind Lu Wen.
If it really existed, it should have been revealed long ago and occupied a place on the list of the world's ugliest creatures.
The distant sun gradually sank below the horizon.
It's getting darker.
Lu Wen found the third of these wriggling sarcoma creatures in a corner of the ruins of the museum.
This corner is darker.
So Lu Wen could clearly see that this creature was actually emitting a light green light.
Fluorescent organisms.
"There are many creatures that can emit light, and most of them are just for mates, hunting, and intimidating natural enemies. Why does this thing light up? It moves so slowly. Are you worried that natural enemies can't see it?"
Lu Wen pondered for a moment and determined that this thing was not a natural product.
This lump of flesh and blood is a big meal for many predators. It moves slowly, and there is no need to evolve a fluorescent effect. This effect cannot intimidate opponents at all.
Lu Wen remembered a long time ago.
There once was a fluorescent rabbit, which sparked a national discussion about genetic engineering, and caused the Animal Welfare Association and the genetic engineering academic community to quarrel with each other to this day.
(End of chapter)