Survivorship Bias

Chapter 43: Surrogacy factory

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Shen Ti's words caused An Wujiu to change his state briefly.

It didn't feel good, like holding a heart valve with one hand, peeling off half of it, and throwing it to his incomplete other half.

"Collaboration?"

When An Wujiu repeated the four words, his expression was slightly confused.

So Shen Ti immediately discovered that his state had changed.

But in the next moment, An Wujiu laughed, the corners of his mouth curled up to make people unconsciously terrified. He lowered his head and opened the game panel while talking.

"You're right, I'm not such a stingy person. It's boring to have the fun of chaos alone."

After buying the bullets, he grabbed them with his right hand, lowered his head and changed the bullets quickly and skillfully, then raised his eyes and smiled at Shen Ti, "However, I don't like you who are tentative."

"Endless."

As soon as the words were finished, An Wujiu raised his gun and shot a re-emerged monster over Shen Ti's body.

Shen Ti didn't know if An Wujiu's last words were aimed at the monster behind him or him.

But the words inevitably had an impact on him.

How about trying a straight-forward strategy

"It appeared again." Wu You looked at those monsters, so he also exchanged a weapon from his panel, which was the machine gun that An Wujiu said before.

The fire that had been burning for a while seemed to be extinguished by an invisible wet cloth at this moment. The scorched black bodies of those twisted monsters burst open immediately, and countless tentacles that were as tender as newborns emerged from the inside. As soon as the sharp-toothed mouth opened, mucus would overflow from the gaps in the teeth, making a sharp whistling sound.

The voice was like thick syrup, stuck in the throat, making it difficult to hear the content, like a repeated, unfamiliar language.

Wu You was a bit unfamiliar with machine guns, he was not very good at using them, and his accuracy was poor. This was the first time in his short life that he killed something. The monster in front of him fell down, and the sight of the slime splashing out made him sick.

The tentacles continued to grow forward, faster than they imagined. Shen Ti threw the incendiary bombs that were not used up before, and precisely created a wall of fire.

The opportunity has come.

An Wujiu needed a weapon that could fire continuously, he yelled at Wu You, "Give me the gun!"

Wu You was about to throw the gun over, but a thick tentacle covered with slippery fluid pierced through the fire wall and stabbed at An Wujiu who was sideways.

"careful!"

An Wujiu turned his head, and a second before the huge tentacles came towards him, a wooden sword shining with golden light appeared and cut off the tip of the tentacles.

It is Nan Shan's sword.

Nanshan sealed Yujian with both hands, her lips were extremely pale, "You guys go to the other side first, I'll cut it off!"

Backing off is not an option either.

An Wujiu frowned, this place is different from the first two floors, it is not a circular corridor, even if they retreat, it is a dead end.

Is it true that these monsters must be wiped out before the door to the large room in the middle will be opened

"What did you find there?" An Wujiu asked Josh.

Josh replied in a panic, "I only found one ball, made of metal, very small, at Nanshan's place."

"Metal ball?"

It is not the clue to solve the puzzle like before.

Wu You guessed that these monsters were all products of the supernatural, and only Nanshan could contend with them. His mahogany sword could ward off evil spirits, so maybe it was really useful.

But at this moment, he was worried about Nanshan's physical strength. If Zhong Yirou was used as a reference, Nanshan should have been completely unconscious at this time, and he was using a spell to forcibly overdraw his physical strength.

Now this mahogany sword is indeed slaying demons and demons, but without Nanshan, it is a fake sword that can cut even grass.

As Wu You thought, Nanshan obviously felt powerless. When chanting the mantra, the power of the mantra was scattered and could not be concentrated. And those tentacle sections that were cut open in front of him gave birth to many new tentacles, it was inexhaustible to kill.

An Wujiu was still aiming with his gun, he wanted to know where the vital points of these monsters were.

head

But even if he was hit by a single shot, he was still able to act.

Neither is the tentacle.

The wall of fire blocked the monster and at the same time interfered with his vision.

"No fault!" Josh grabbed him and ran back, "Go! They're coming!"

"You can't hold it!" Wu You was unwilling to leave. He held a machine gun and shot at the monsters behind the firewall.

"Don't worry about me," Nanshan's face was pale, and her trembling hands were holding the knot in front of her chest, "Children can't risk their lives..."

Before he finished speaking, he took half a step back as if he couldn't resist the force. The mahogany sword in the air also stagnated for a few seconds, but finally did not recover. The golden light went out instantly, and the wooden sword fell straight to the ground.

But it didn't really land.

With a tiptoe, the mahogany sword rebounded and rose, and was finally held by a hand wearing a black glove.

"Nan Shan, lend me some use."

Holding the hilt in his palm, Shen Ti felt a huge resistance transmitted from the wooden sword to his body, and even his blood could feel the vibration.

Incompatible but tameable.

But soon, the vibration was interrupted, and a new force flowed back into the sword along the wooden handle.

"Watch out for the tentacles!"

The tentacles struck straight at the red dot on his forehead, and when they were about to touch it, they were cut off by Shen Ti with the mahogany sword.

An Wujiu immediately frowned.

This wooden sword is in his hand, why does it take effect

Shen Ti doesn't know how to use a sword, but he has just observed the moves of the peach wood sword in the air, quickly imitating and reproducing them, and the speed of killing is getting faster and more ruthless.

At the same time, the palm of his hand holding the sword seemed to be split open, and blood flowed out. The bright red blood flowed down the blade and reached the tip of the sword.

The mahogany sword immediately burst into light, but it was not the golden light that appeared when Nanshan Yujian, but a scarlet mist.

Those tentacles that split immediately after being severed, exploded the moment they touched the scarlet light mist, leaving only fragmented tentacles and splattered mucus.

At the moment of turning point, Nanshan's consciousness gradually lost, only the hazy red flame and the mucus green in front of his eyes.

Before he fell down, Wu You caught him behind him.

At the moment when Nan Shan's body leaned, An Wujiu's eyes caught a small ball shining with metallic luster, falling from Nan Shan's pocket, falling to the ground, and then began to roll.

An Wujiu tried to pick up the ball, but his eyes followed the ball for a long time.

He suddenly discovered a problem.

Josh was very surprised, An Wujiu clearly saw the metal ball, why didn't he pick it up.

"No fault?" He was about to bend down to pick it up.

"Wait a minute." An Wujiu stopped him, "Don't move."

He just stood there, watching the ball roll towards the aisle of the ordering service, rolling farther and farther, without any sign of stopping.

"No fault, why didn't you pick it up?"

"Because the ball should have stopped."

An Wujiu only gave him an inexplicable sentence.

What's the meaning

An Wujiu squatted down, with one knee resting on the floor, his palms pressed against the ground, as if he was observing something.

"But it didn't stop."

The entire baby-making factory consists of a "beehive to be born" built against the wall and a production line. The various plates of the assembly line are handed over together, like a small maze.

Pleasant piano music is played in the space, and the sound of the piano is melodious.

But to Yang Erci's ears, this is no different from human beings giving cows a massage and listening to music in order to eat more delicious beef.

She looked up, but couldn't find a place to play music, and to her surprise, she couldn't find a surveillance camera either.

[Provide you with the most private and safest service. ]

In the middle of the piano music, some such vocal announcements are inserted from time to time, which are probably the advertisements of the surrogacy factory, and are used to exert psychological hints on the "customers" who come to order and visit the assembly line.

Yang Erci's current location is at the beginning of the production line, that is, the centralized waiting area waiting for conception.

This is a conveyor belt that rolls forward slowly. On the right is a guarding robot, and on the left is a long counter with a clean surface, which transports the pregnant mother.

But this is blocked by glass, Yang Erci can't touch it.

Each of them stood on the orderly round platform of the conveyor belt, lined up in a single queue, and were transported into a huge transparent cabin, which contained many mechanical arms in operation.

Judging from the instruments connected to these robotic arms and their operating procedures, this is where the fertilized embryos are implanted into their bodies.

Looking back, Yang Erci found something unusual. The "beehives waiting to give birth" that she thought would be surrounded by no gaps were not fully built, and there was a blank wall in the corner behind her.

No, not blank.

She saw some English words on the wall, like door signs.

There is an invisible door there.

Yang Erci squinted his eyes, trying to recognize the English on it.

power distribution…

[Provide you with the most private and safest service. ]

This voice appeared again, disrupting Yang Erci's train of thought.

Looking away, she turned her head.

Yang Erci's front and rear are all different women, wearing old clothes, and his white coat looks out of place inside. Although everyone has different faces, they all seem to have lost their souls, neither speaking nor responding.

Most of these women are from Southeast Asia, with obvious facial features and many Caucasian looks. There are relatively more black people and few East Asian people, so Yang Erci saw Zhong Yirou's back at a glance. She was not far in front of her, with her black curly hair hanging loose, there was a beauty that was out of place and full of vitality in this place.

Like these women, Zhong Yirou seemed to be just a commodity for sale, but at least she didn't pass out. Yang Erci looked, and there were seven women between them.

Oddly enough, the back of her neck hurts. Yang Erci stretched out his hand to touch it, and at the same time glanced at the back of the previous woman's neck.

serial number.

There is a series of numbers on the back of her neck, and there is even a slightly raised box.

Yang Erci touched it, probably it was a chip.

At the same time, she discovered that every time they were transported a distance of about 30 centimeters, a horizontal red laser appeared in the sky, like a boundary, a door.

When they penetrated the laser, the laser also penetrated the back of their neck, scanning the chip on the neck.

[In the process of information entry, the total number of transplants to be transplanted: 54, the number of people who passed: 54, without omission. ]

Listening to this message, Yang Erci's conjecture was verified.

The conveyor belt continued to move forward slowly, and before long, Zhong Yirou in front would be sent into the embryo transfer cabin.

Yang Erci felt a little flustered, and she forced herself to calm down.

Advertisement words are inserted again in the piano piece.

[Provide you with the most private and safest service. ]

If it is recorded with a chip, will these artificial intelligences have the function of face recognition and scanning

She stretched out her hand and shook it in front of the robot in front of her, but she didn't get any interaction.

After passing through several 30cm laser lines in a row, the next one is coming soon. Seeing that he was about to move in front of the red laser, Yang Erci took a step back after thinking about it, and got off the round platform.

The red laser scanned the round platform and issued a buzzing alarm, and the robot beside it also started to move. It raised an arm, and the mechanical finger fired a blue laser, which seemed to be tracking the location of the chip.

Yang Erci didn't feel right, and took a step forward, almost, the emitted blue laser almost penetrated her body, but fortunately she dodged in time, the target of the laser missed, and finally hit the glass baffle on Yang Erci's left side.

The glass panel shattered.

The red laser on the top scanned Yang Erci's body again, the buzzing stopped, and the robot retracted its arm.

After scanning the remaining few people in succession:

[Information entry, total number to be transplanted: 50, number of people who passed: 50, no omissions. ]

Yang Erci understood what the so-called "privacy" and "safety" in the advertisement meant.

Because there won't be any footage of their surrogacy factory being made public.

They specially only use chips to record numbers and information, without artificial intelligence for monitoring and visual scanning.

There is no impenetrable wall in the world, unless the wall itself does not exist.

She took a deep breath, stared at Zhong Yirou's back not far away, and then, like just now, knowing that the robot would move, she left the round platform and took two steps back.

Sure enough, the robot tracked the moving position of the chip and raised its hand to attack. One second before the blue light appeared, Yang Erci returned to the round platform. The blue light hit the glass as before, and the glass cracked, but didn't shatter.

The moment after passing the detection of the position of the red line, Yang Erci raised his leg and kicked hard on the crack on the glass baffle, and the glass shattered and splashed in an instant.

The next red line is just a hair away.

She quickly picked up the nearest shard and held it tightly in her hand.

After passing the red line, he stretched his hand back, and cut open the skin of the back of his neck along the raised line. Blood trickled down her fingers and dripped on the clean and orderly conveyor belt.

Constantly transported forward, Yang Erci constantly sees new scenes.

In the transparent transplant cabin, a thin woman was transplanted with five embryos. This is their way of ensuring the survival rate of the embryos. They will cut and discard other unnecessary embryos before giving birth.

In the production cabin at the other end, a sharp scalpel at the top of the robotic arm sliced open a woman's stomach, very smoothly, seemingly without resistance.

Like cutting a cake with a hidden surprise, slit a ripe fig.

Yang Erci let go of his right hand, and the piece of glass fell off. She pressed the wound on the back of her neck, bent down, moved her blood-stained hand to her mouth, imitated the prayer method her father taught her back then, and kissed the chip.

She is very devout, and keeps praying in her heart that luck will come for someone.

But she is not pious enough, because her eyes are always looking at Zhong Yirou's back.

Zhong Yirou was less than two meters away from the embryo transfer cabin.

She is soon to be put into it, with long needles piercing mucous membranes and muscles, into the uterus…

time is limited.

Elegant piano music fluttered over the orderly factory, and the only rioter was running towards the white invisible door under the watchful eyes of the artificial intelligence.

The blood-stained chip stayed on the round table instead of her, waiting to be scanned.

And Zhong Yirou, who lost her self-awareness, entered the cabin, waiting for conception.

An Wujiu followed the metal ball and ran to the depths of the tunnel. In the end, the metal ball seemed to be caught by an invisible thread on the ground, and suddenly stopped.

Josh and Wu You followed the unconscious Nan Shan, "No fault."

An Wujiu didn't want to listen to his question anymore, so he said it himself, "This floor is not a horizontal plane, which cannot be seen with the naked eye, but for this metal ball, such a slight inclination is enough to make it resist the frictional force, constantly Roll forward."

As soon as he finished speaking, as if the answer had been verified, the invisible line appeared and turned into a line made of blood, like a dividing line, separating the gate of life and the gate of death.

An Wujiu looked in the direction they came from, but did not see Shen Ti's figure.

"What about others?"

He felt weird about himself asking such a question.

Josh also looked back, "Shen Ti said just now, let's go first and follow you, and he will stop the rear."

What a hero to be at this time.

"whatever."

An Wujiu bent down, lowered his head and picked up the stationary metal ball on the ground. In an instant, the smooth ball shot out several green laser beams, intersecting vertically and horizontally, and finally fixed into four lines up, down, left, and right, forming a rectangle.

The door opens.

Maybe it was because of familiarity, or maybe it was some kind of hidden guidance, the first time An Wujiu opened the door, he saw the transparent circular cabin directly through the production line.

He also saw Zhong Yirou lying in the cabin. One mechanical arm looked straight at her and stripped off her clothes, and the tip of the other was inserted into a long needle that was about to penetrate her body.

Almost uncontrollably, a certain part of An Wujiu's body was waking up, and that force was forcing him to rush in.

Save her, hurry up.

Come on, that's my friend!

An Wujiu had a splitting headache, feeling that his body was out of control of his current self.

The next moment, Goodwill broke through the confinement, and he finally rushed in.

However-

[Provide you with the most private and

The piano piece came to an abrupt end.

Everything in the bright and clean surrogacy factory was interrupted in an instant, and it fell into dead darkness.