The light in the lighthouse was gloomy. Gu Jun looked at the line of blood on the wall of the stairs, closed his eyes, and tightened his hand holding the rifle.
The first time he encountered this sentence, he was not sure when it was, was it at the bottom of Longkan? Or childhood
The first time he saw the memory sequence was a phantom triggered in the school laboratory, seeing such a line of blood writing on the wall of a dilapidated laboratory.
He later tested his subconscious mind in the personality test for entering the Tianji Bureau, and wrote this line of blood himself.
[The fruit of darkness grows from the ancient abyss, and the dead worm will last forever with the heaven and the earth]
Gu Jun walked over carefully and saw more clearly that it was painted with bloody phlegm. Judging from the sputum traces, it should have been painted for a few days.
"Let's go up and have a look." Gu Jun's voice was already gritty, he will meet in the next life, he will meet in Laisheng...
What are you going to do this time, why are you creating disasters? Don't you feel that you are people of different cultures? Don't you know what kind of suffering people of different cultures have experienced... Why do you want to impose suffering on this world? revenge? What Old One is calling? Or just plain crazy
Crackling, crackling, there is no sound when the footsteps step on the stone stairs, but the friction and collision of protective clothing during walking is very harsh in this silent environment.
Gu Jun walked in front, and Peacock and the others followed behind, walking up this spiral staircase to the upper floor.
The stone steps of this staircase are very narrow and there are not many steps, but Gu Jun remembered the one that he walked under the altar outside the city of Hawke in the different world.
The higher he went, the more weird feeling he felt in his mind, as if there were many mixed voices filling his ears...
"Did you hear the sound?" Gu Jun frowned, as if a group of children were singing a song.
"No." Peacock wondered, but the others didn't hear anything.
Is it an illusion? Gu Jun was even more vigilant, and continued to walk up to the second floor of the lighthouse, which was still vacant, with no people or debris.
But the singing was even louder, it was a ballad in a different language, as if it sounded from the bottom of his heart:
"Mother died in the morning.
In the afternoon, Dad died.
I will die at night.
great plague, great plague,
With the sound of coughing, everyone will die together. "
Listening to the singing, Gu Jun felt a splitting pain in his head, and a hazy illusion appeared in front of his eyes, and an illusion was triggered...
Heck, heck, he continued to lead the way to the third floor of the lighthouse, which was still vacant, and further up was the top of the tower.
"Be careful..." Gu Jun felt that there were people on the top of the tower, but the operators who were staring at various positions outside the lighthouse did not see anyone, and the thermal imaging scope did not respond.
Da da da, he and the peacock rushed to the top of the tower again with the tactics of rushing to the house. There was no one, only a big lamp hanging in the middle shimmered.
Gu Jun squinted his eyes and looked at the lamp. Suddenly he felt a headache and felt that his surroundings were distorted. It was not a space, but an illusion. He was entering an illusion...
It is hazy, the top of the tower is still the top of the tower, the night is still night, the misty sea remains unchanged, but there is an extra figure in front of it.
It was an old man with that haggard face. He looked seventy or eighty years old, but his white hair was neatly combed, and he wore a long black mandarin jacket that fit him naturally, making him look very hale and hearty. The old man does not feel cold, but seems to have the demeanor of an elderly scholar.
"Son, you're here." The old man was drinking tea from a blue and white porcelain cup, "Order as you like."
Regardless of whether it was an illusion or what, Gu Jun pointed his rifle at the old man, "Don't move!"
"Don't be nervous, it's an illusion," said the old man. "I don't see you, but you will see me, and I know you will."
Gu Jun tried to pull the trigger and shoot the old man's calf, but nothing happened. This... is indeed an illusion...
Did this old guy from the afterlife "record" this phantom here in advance so that he can see it when he comes...
"You have a lot of questions." The old man turned around and looked at the boundless sea under the night, and took a sip of tea, "Is this pneumonia a disease we created? Why do we do this? Questions like these. I have thought about it for many years.”
"I'm going to talk nonsense again." Gu Jun said coldly, regardless of whether the other party could hear it or not, "I'm going to say those crazy things about you evil believers again."
"Son, I didn't intend to convince you." The old man smiled, as if he had already predicted his reaction, even every word he said.
The old man said: "I just want to give you another perspective to look at things. People usually regard disease and plague as a bad thing, and people in the old world are the same. But we, and this world, Always shaped by disease, plague."
The old man's voice was gentle, and he spoke slowly, like a scholar standing on a podium.
"Humans first ate raw meat, and this desire has always existed in our genes. The reason why humans don't eat raw meat is not because raw meat is not delicious enough, but because there are many deadly parasites in raw meat. You are a medical student , you probably know those parasites better than I do. Raw meat is phased out and cooked meat thrives. This is a small example of how disease shapes us, another small example is that we don't eat rot .”
"So?" Gu Jun breathed heavily, "This is the reason why you harm others? Who do you think you are?"
"Human history is a history of wars and plagues." The old man took a sip of tea and said, "Why did Chinese civilization originate in the north instead of the south? Because the humid and hot environment in the south has more parasites and diseases than in the north. The Mongols brought the plague to the Europeans, and the Black Death changed the whole of Europe; the Europeans brought the plague to the New World, and the Indians were almost wiped out, most of them died of smallpox. The Europeans got the New World, and the entire human civilization was changed .”
"Son, you see, if there is a huge turning point in a world, it must be accompanied by hunger, death, war, and plague."
"Children, especially the plague."
"Every great plague is a great baptism for mankind. Most people die, but a few people survive, and then bring civilization to a new height."
The old man seemed to be able to see Gu Jun's angry face, and smiled like an elder forgiving a younger generation, "We are creating a new world, and this is our purpose. I didn't say that we must be right, we are just pursuing what we want world."
"That's right, we involved the innocent people you called. No one can leave the torrent of history. The fate of the majority is actually the result of the struggle and arrangement of the few. They have their mission of the times, and death is also a mission." , a kind of sublimation. They will be remembered in history."
The old man took a sip of tea, sighing slightly in his tone, "Child, it's a bit rotten, and only chaos can end it."
"New plagues create a new order, new extinctions a new world."
"And you." The old man looked at Gu Jun, "You will have a good place in the new world, you were born to belong to the minority."
"You may be a little unreasonable." Gu Junsha said solemnly, "But I know it shouldn't be like this. You have no right to cause these pains, and no one has the right."
"Okay." The old man smiled, "Son, let's talk next time we face each other."
The illusion came to an abrupt end, and Gu Jun still saw the empty top of the lighthouse, the faint lights flickering, and the roaring sea in the distance...
"Send someone here to take samples and investigate." He used the intercom to communicate with the large troops while walking down to the lower level of the lighthouse. "It will be completed within an hour, and then directly bomb the lighthouse with missiles. Act immediately!"