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"I'm going to take a shower first thing in town, and then I'll find that old boy Brown for a drink in the bar."
"I want to sleep well."
"It would be great if there is a practice field, then Yeliu and I can have a good time."
"You guys are so noisy!"
Driving towards Shuguang City, Feng and the others chattered along the way. Zero smiled and said nothing, Shuguang City is the first city that belongs to him in the true sense, and also belongs to everyone. For people like Ling and Feng, the sense of belonging this city gave them was incomparable to those cities they had stayed in before. Even in Asgard, they would not have such feelings.
That's the feeling of home.
The bricks and soil here are all made by everyone, and contain everyone's blood, sweat and affection. Naturally, it is not comparable to other cities.
After driving across the Arc de Triomphe Bridge, along the road connecting the city and the bridge, the car passed the small town that fought against foreigners during the Western Expedition that day. Now the ruins of the town have been cleared away, and both sides of the road are open wilderness. Some low shrubs can be seen appearing on both sides of the road. These bushes line the sides of the road and appear to be artificially seeded plants.
On a wilderness not far from the city, Zero saw Jin's agricultural base. Under the improvement of gold, the soil here can already grow some hardy crops. There are three or five workers who are turning the soil with equipment, and others are spreading seeds into the soil. At the back of the base is a greenhouse, where you can see a demonstration rice field that has been successfully cultivated.
This is a very common picture in the old days, but in this era, when you see these rice fields growing on the surface. Everyone in the car, including Zero, was silent. They knew very well that these rice fields symbolized hope.
Already in front of the gate of Dawn City, there is a patchwork of defensive positions outside the city, with towering walls and metal gates separating the city from the wilderness. It's just that the door is completely black, like the traces left by the high-temperature flames, and the eyes are cold. When the gate opened, it was 14th Street that was invaded by Nicholas that day.
After the battle between Nicholas and Shuya, 14th Street has been turned into ruins. The street has been cleaned up so far, but the damaged buildings on both sides still leave traces of the war. Soldiers and workers are using equipment and manpower to clear out the debris, and then transport it to a truck to send it away. Seeing this scene, the convoy stopped. Zero was still sitting in the driver's seat, while the others stood up one after another.
Feng asked in surprise, "What's going on?"
In front of the street, an off-road vehicle drove over. The car stopped in front, and Brown jumped out of the car, laughing and ushering in this direction. Zero opened the car door, and was hugged by this big man forcefully on the street. Letting go of Zero, Brown sighed, "It's good that you're back, head."
"What happened?" Zero asked directly.
"It's a long story, let's talk as we go. By the way, you have to meet someone first. If you are late, you don't know if you will meet." Brown's face was gloomy.
Zero's heart sank when he heard it.
Zero changed to take Brown's car, and the big man drove the car directly to look in the direction of the comprehensive research base. That base is basically the territory of Eva, Curd, and Victor, and the three are engaged in different researches in this base. When it was under construction, Beyonce planned the area of the base for them. So that they do not interfere with each other, but they can communicate immediately when they encounter any problems.
The car finally stopped in front of the drug research institute belonging to Victor in the base. Brown hurried into the research institute with Zero, while the others waited outside. Brown went straight to a room deep in the institute with Zero, and pushed open the door. Victor was busy with something, and didn't even have the time to look back. The room was littered with instruments, several of which were used to sustain life.
On a bed next to Victor, lay a young girl, the silver hair hanging from the edge of the bed had already lost its luster, so dim that it made people feel distressed.
Brown coughed dryly, and Victor turned around. Brown is seen first, then zero. Victor visibly showed a sign, and then smiled wryly: "It's good that you're back, come and see her."
Ling walked over, and when he saw the naked girl, he was obviously short of breath: "She... Could it be..."
"That's right, Moni. Look, I haven't seen her for a few years, she has grown up." Victor pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, "She came to Dawn City to look for you more than half a year ago. But you She has already left the mainland, but Mo Ni didn't leave, she stayed here to wait for you. She also helped Brown a lot, this child is already a very powerful user. But now... "
Zero stretched out his hand, and gently brushed across Mo Ni's small face, feeling the amazing body temperature of her body. Zero said calmly, "Who did it."
Although the tone was calm, Victor and Brown felt chills all over at the same time. Zero became calmer, but the killing intent became stronger. After a while, Brown replied: "A guy named Nicholas, he called himself a prophet. Just last night, he attacked us. Many people were injured, and Mr. Cacilio was killed. In the end, Moni fought It took her life to drive him back, but she fell herself."
"Mr. Cacilio too..." Zero's pupils shrank, and the depths of the pupils almost spurted out flames: "Okay, okay. Nicholas, I wrote it down."
He took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and asked, "How is Mo Ni?"
"It's very bad. Come and see..." Victor brought Zero to his working brain, and a light screen was showing the cells in Moni's body.
Seeing those foreign cells invading Moni's own cells, Zero felt that this scene was very familiar, and suddenly said in shock: "Disorder?"
"It's very similar, but not exactly." Victor shook his head and said, "These foreign cells, I call them spreaders for the time being. You see, spreaders are not like disordered ones. They are not so much invasion as they are Seed sowing is apt. Look here...”
The doctor pointed to one of the zoomed-in pictures, in which the communicator quickly died after invading the cells. However, for the invaded cells, a black halo appeared from the point of invasion. This halo will gradually spread, and eventually cover the host's cells.
"See, it sows seeds, and then dies. But the seeds will take root and germinate in the new soil, and quickly change the soil." Victor said in a deep voice: "These things are actually transforming Mo Ni's cells, they add a new genetic code. It is almost impossible to decipher this code in a short period of time, and in this way, Moni's changes are irreversible. What we don't know is that when Mo Ni After all of Ni's cells have been changed, what will she become? A new species? Or a monster? Only one thing is certain, at that time, she will no longer be Moni."
"I understand..." Zero stood up and said, "Let me see where she provoked these things."
"I'm afraid only Moni knows about this kind of thing." Victor said.
"No, I have a way."
Only then did Victor notice that Zero had only a golden right eye, but now, both eyes have turned golden yellow. He couldn't help but said, "Your eyes..."
"Well, someone's gift." Zero pointed to his left eye and said, "It has the ability to go back in time."
Victor opened his mouth wide.
Walking to Mo Ni's bed, Zero reached out and gently pressed the girl's cheek. A brand new symbol rose from the left eye, and it slowly rotated. And it turned faster and faster, and finally a golden flame was ejected from the symbol. Zero and Mo Ni shook lightly at the same time, and their spirits were connected together. In Zero's mind, pictures flashed one by one. It was the left eye of God looking through Moni's memory.
Finally, the screen stopped, and Zero saw Mo Ni and the boy with the strange animal eyes in a mountain forest, surrounded by unnamed, tall and mysterious ancient trees. There were dense figures around them, and a strong man came over. He looks like an ordinary human adult man, but his eyes are also a pair of animal pupils.
He came to Mo Ni and squatted down, holding a transparent test tube with two fingers, which contained a drop of black **. He said something in a language that Zero didn't understand, and finally said in human language: "The seed of the black god has been sown in your body, and you already have great power. This is the holy medicine that makes the seed a big tree, but After drinking it, you will completely become a servant of the Black God, and your body and mind will no longer be your own. Therefore, you must not drink the holy medicine casually."
The picture quickly faded away, Zero lost the spiritual connection with Moni, the rotating symbol in his left eye stopped, and finally disappeared deep in the pupil. Zero closed his eyes, still echoing in his mind the few important words that were left behind when he traced Moni's past just now.
Black Earth, Amanda, Black God, Seed, Holy Medicine!
These few words form an important clue to explain why Moni has grown to such a height in just a few years. And the repeated word "black" gives Zero a vague hint.
"Victor, get ready, let me give Moni a blood transfusion." Zero said.
Victor frowned and said, "She didn't lose blood..."
"I know, but my blood should be able to get rid of those so-called spreaders." This is Zero's purpose.
Victor stopped insisting and stood up to prepare blood transfusion equipment for the two. Brown withdrew and waited outside for the result. Ling sat on a chair next to Mo Ni's bed, looking at the girl's side face, as if the days of wandering in the wilderness had come back before him. At that time, two people, a gun, and Lala were the whole life of wandering.
After a while, Victor injected the catheter into the veins of the two with needles. Zero closed his eyes, feeling his own blood flow into Moni's body through the equipment. Then, he used his will to remotely control the memory groups in the blood, allowing them to generate countermeasures against the situation in Moni's body. The memory team immediately went to work, they captured one of the communicators, and began to invade to decipher its genetic code.
However, when the memory group invaded the communicator, Zero was shocked and opened his eyes. In his eyes, a little black shadow appeared. The black shadow rolled like flames, and red light pieces like eyes appeared, and then Zero heard a beast-like roar.
He knew that he guessed right, the so-called black god was indeed related to Proseus. If this is the case, then the so-called seeds and holy medicine should be the Heart of Darkness that Agladis wanted him to find!