After the Chimelong operation, some news that Hao Jian was also an apostle circulated in the officials. Some people thought it was nonsense, and some people thought that Hao Jian's hiding his identity was a villain's behavior, and his heart was punishable.
The official also sent someone to inquire with Wen Shanggao to see if it was the Southern District that was carrying out any plans. Those big men also contacted him and wanted to know his intentions.
Wen Shanggao didn't say Hao Jian's identity, but he didn't deny anything, he just made a package ticket, he would be responsible for all this.
Under his repeated assurances, the big men decided to let him go and let him act according to his own will.
At the same time, the news that the apostles can gain each other's experience by killing each other is more and more deceptive, and some ordinary people even listen to the rumors and think that even ordinary people can gain the power of the other party by killing the apostles.
So the lonely apostles were killed exponentially, and some apostles were besieged by zombies and pushed out by ordinary people who thought they had the means to save their lives, but were infected by zombie attacks, so that more apostles were killed. She hides in the shelter and dares not go out.
But despite this, thousands of apostles were still declining at a speed visible to the naked eye. By the winter solstice, there were only more than a thousand apostles registered in the Apostles Association.
The official had to issue various propaganda notices. One was to warn ordinary people who were trying to gain strength from the apostles, that they would only violate the law and harm the interests of more ordinary people; They are free from gossip that they think it's the government's fault.
And all this, Wen Shanggao has no intention of intervening. He only sent a "special response team" to secretly collect data, and then secretly observe the rules of the world.
At present, the research of the Science Center is proceeding in an orderly manner, and the virology team has explored the relevant data of the pathogen. It is believed that the pathogen will be thoroughly investigated within a year, and the development of antibodies will be started. This process may only take three to five years.
In addition to the virus research, the rest of the research has achieved positive results, which has made the official order restoration work go more smoothly.
Later, some foreign research institutions also began to communicate with each other, hoping to work together to tide over the difficulties. Especially in times of crisis like this, other countries have suffered more than China, but their number of apostles is very small. If there are 10,000 apostles in the world, then China accounts for 60%, and the rest of the countries only accounted for four percent.
Hao Jian and Lian Runing analyzed the reasons for the distribution of the number of people. She said: "There is a high probability that burial is popular in China, while cremation is more common in foreign countries."
Lian Runing: "..." Although Hao Jian was joking, she thought it was so reasonable that she couldn't refute it.
Regardless of the reason for the difference in the number of people, they only know from the official information that the situation of the apostles in other countries is even worse. Due to various reasons such as the system, it is estimated that there are fewer than 100 apostles still alive.
There were even some apostles sneaking into China from the border of Yuncheng and other places, wanting to gain experience by killing the apostles of China.
Since there is no such organization as the Apostolic Association in other countries, their intelligence is relatively small, but the intelligence agencies of other countries have stolen the Apostles Association's list of apostles, and then gave the apostles of other countries the opportunity.
In response to the occurrence of this situation, the officials of various ministries and regions are taking corresponding measures, and once they catch the personnel of the hostile forces, they will not be soft-hearted.
In these days of calm and chaos, tension and calm, the survivors have spent another year and entered 2020.
At the beginning of the new year, the Science Center released a message saying that the initial construction of the maritime security base has been completed, and a large number of scientific workers can be transferred to the maritime security base first.
This is to ensure that scientific research can be carried out in an orderly manner. After all, from the annual observation in 2019, even islands such as university towns surrounded by water are not absolutely safe.
The evolution of zombies has made their ability to walk underwater more prominent. In the second half of 2019 alone, the guards near the university city discovered more than a dozen safety accidents of zombies landing on the island. Although they were discovered before they entered the safe area, this is also a safety hazard.
Therefore, due to many considerations, the government must give priority to transferring the backbone of these scientific research work. The reason for the secret transfer is to worry that after the people know about it, they will feel that the official is engaging in class privileges and so on, so the information must be concealed.
Lian Runing and a group of scientific researchers chose to stay. After all, the science center here cannot be completely empty. The official support for some people to stay is to facilitate the use of various resources nearby to assist the research on the maritime security base.
Lian Qingmiao was already at the maritime security base, and after he arrived, he had a video with Gao Ruosu and others. Gao Ruosu and Lian Ruji didn't follow them to the maritime security base because they didn't want to occupy such important resources.
Along with these scientific researchers, there were also some detained special characters of the escort who went to the maritime security base.
The outside world did not know, but Hao Jian knew that those were a group of criminal apostles, including Kelly, arrested by Wen Shanggao. Some of them sneaked in from foreign countries and came here specifically to kill the apostles in China. They jokingly called the Apostles Association as a breeding farm for the apostles. Since the apostles in China were reluctant to slaughter them, it would be cheap for them.
Of course, for these apostles, Wen Shanggao didn't mind sending them to the research center for various experiments and research.
In order to confirm that the points of these apostles have been used up, the researchers deliberately set traps again and again to make them think they could escape, and then used all means to exchange for various tools, and then they were captured by the guards again and again until they No ability to escape.
At present, the official has mastered the means for the apostles to gain experience or points, and at the same time they know where their limits are. Except for the apostles who are at large, the rest of the apostles, they all have great confidence that they can control it.
In addition, Wen Shanggao found some low-level apostles and hoped that they would cooperate with the escort team to carry out research. What Wen Shanggao has to do is to provide them with zombies to kill, then record the experience they have gained, and then study the experience they need to upgrade.
Although they had learned about these things through various intelligences before, this time, Wen Shanggao also had his own thoughts. It took him half a year to train a few apostles who only had the third level to the seventh level. .
It was because of this that he realized more clearly how rare it was to be an apostle who could be promoted to level 8 and level 9.
As more and more 8th-level apostles appear on the intelligence, the evolution of zombies becomes more and more obvious.
This further confirms some speculations that the operating rules of this world are to create opportunities to reduce the number of apostles. The rules constantly eliminate low-level apostles, and then take advantage of the harsh environment to force them to come together more concentratedly and create conflicts. and conflict, gradually reducing the apostles.
Wen Shanggao also realized that although he learned the truth of the world, it did not mean that it could not detect his awakening of consciousness, so when he carried out these experiments, unless he followed the rules of operation and eliminated the fittest apostles, he would not be able to. action will be hindered.
Even through observation, he found that Hao Jian's situation was more obvious, because there were more apostles who had inexplicable hostility towards Hao Jian.
Liao Yin and Zeng Jianxiong are only one of them. After news spread that Hao Jian was an apostle, she often felt questioned and pressured by the authorities, and some even forced her to publicly admit her identity.
Wen Shanggao didn't know whether the transmission of these messages came from people, or whether "the world" was warning Hao Jian in this way.
For this reason, Hao Jian has been relieved of her post, and now she is back as an ordinary person, but Wen Shanggao still gives her the right to walk around.
In fact, not only Wen Shanggao noticed it, but also Hao Jian and the system "2018".
"2018" has been worried that Hao Jian's awakening will be detected by the central processing terminal system, thus determining Hao Jian's exit.
But because Hao Jian cleverly exploited the loophole, the error of "data" being detected by the central processing terminal system was avoided.
But they all forget that whether it is the personal terminal system "2018" or the central processing terminal system, the operation of both is always based on the multi-dimensional information space.
As mentioned before, the personal terminal system is a house, and the central processing terminal system is the bridge and hub connecting the houses.
And this multi-dimensional information space is the existence of the location and space for houses and bridges, but the multi-dimensional information space is also affected by the central processing terminal system.
Therefore, under the set operation rules of the multi-dimensional information space, even if the central processing terminal system does not detect Hao Jian's data parameter errors, the multi-dimensional information space will have such information imported.
So that the multi-dimensional information space will treat hosts, people, etc. with signs of awakening as viruses.
However, the multi-dimensional information space does not have the "anti-virus" function, so it can only use the mode of intervention of the central processing terminal system to "anti-virus", that is, by implanting other apostles with inexplicable attachment and hostility to Hao Jian and others, etc. way, hoping to eliminate them by means within the rules.
But Wen Shanggao and Lian Ruling are not apostles, so the multi-dimensional information space can only use official pressure and external forms to create problems for them.
For this reason, Wen Shanggao didn't do anything, but instead used this rule to further his goals.
Hao Jian became much more "safe", so the original "antivirus" behavior of the multi-dimensional information space was interrupted for a while, allowing Hao Jian and Lian Runing to spend a relatively leisurely life.
However, on a quiet morning, a contact from Wei Guojia made Hao Jian realize that the situation was getting serious again.
Wei Guojia has gradually gained more voice in the "special response team" in the past six months. He has also replaced Hao Jian and has become a major force in Wen Shanggao's investigation apostle.
Hao Jian knew that she did not kill the person Wen Shanggao wanted her to kill, but Wei Guojia did. In other words, Wei Guojia took the initiative to cooperate with Wen Shanggao, and then reached level 9 first.
Wei Guojia did not take the initiative to say the authority brought by level 9, but only mentioned a trend. In the future, it will be more and more difficult for apostles below level 6 to survive.
That is to say, apostles below level 6 have basically no hope of survival in front of apostles at level 9. This shows how terrible the authority that the central processing system brings to level 9 is.
After that, the actions of the three Wei brothers were even more monitored and restricted, which was the price they had to pay for choosing to cooperate with Wen Shanggao.
At this moment, the three Wei brothers were also targeted, but they didn't know it at first, until when the three brothers were out on a mission, someone took advantage of Wei Shehui's physical condition and could only hide. Rear thing, assassinated him.
And the only people who can know the characteristics of the actions of the three brothers so clearly are the people who have dealt with them besides the people who are close to the three brothers.
When Wei Shehui was being hunted down, he also passed the news to Wei Guojia and Wei Renmin, saying that it was definitely not the work of an apostle below level 6, and they were very aware of his ability and even suspected that he was an apostle. So it was definitely someone they knew who shot him.
Although Wei Guojia and Wei Renmin tried their best to rush to Wei Shehui's hiding place at the time, it was still a step too late. After all, although they reached level 9, they did not have the super power of invulnerability. Moreover, under the siege of several high-level apostles, he had no way out.
Wei Shehui's death dealt a great blow to the brothers Wei Guojia and Wei Renmin. They also knew very well that the other party absolutely believed that Wei Shehui was the owner of the system, so they attacked him. In addition, Wei Shehui is dead, they have many tasks that only the three brothers can complete together, or the bonus points cannot be completed.
If it is the former, then several people can be excluded. After all, whether it is Hao Jian or Wen Shanggao, it is clear that Wei Guojia is the holder of the system; but if it is the latter, the purpose of the other party is to attack him and slow him down. The speed of the upgrade, then there will be a lot of suspicious people.
But no matter how he analyzed it, Wei Guojia didn't think that this person would be Hao Jian.
First, Hao Jian's level has not yet reached level 9, and she will never take risks until she has figured out the authority of level 9.
The second is that the other party can contact so many high-level hosts to cooperate with each other, and the other party even knows all the escape methods and routes of Wei Shehui, so the other party is most likely a host who knows the authority of level 9. Therefore, the commander behind must be a level 9 host.
The third cannot be Wen Shanggao. He took such a big risk to train him to level 9, and he will never break his wings at this time.
Wei Guojia hopes that Hao Jian can help him.
Hao Jian said: "I'm sorry, if there is anything I can do to help, please tell me, I will do my best to help."
Wei Guojia asked: "I want you to tell me, do you know something? If it is said that you are not holding any post now because the government is questioning you, it is better to say that it is actually a kind of protection for you by Chairman Wen. Way."
Hao Jian knew that Wei Guojia was questioning that she was the one who reached an agreement with Wen Shanggao, and the three brothers were just pawns. But she understands the pain of losing his brother, so she has such emotions.
She said: "I don't know if this is the so-called protection, I just know that the path I want to take has always been clear. Since you have chosen this path, you should bear all kinds of consequences. As for some things , I think even if I tell you, your system will try its best to reject me, so you can talk to Chairman Wen."
When Wei Guojia thought of Wei Shehui's death, her eyes were red again, but she calmed down: "The person who killed the third child, I locked a few areas, I think you should also have a clue."
At the beginning, some people suspected that Wei Renmin was the host with the system, and now the official mainstream is still this way of thinking, and Hao Jian and Wen Shanggao are both people who know that he is the real host, so they suspect that the three brothers have the system. , but the person who set his sights on Wei Shehui, who has always been very low-key, was most likely one of the people who took the opportunity to approach their three brothers.
After synthesizing various information, Wei Guojia thought of a person.
"Did you know that Le Yan is the host, so you reminded me so vaguely at the beginning?"