2035 年,联合国月球基地巍然屹立,人类踏上了离开地球的伟大旅程."Zero to One"计划应运而生.它的宏伟目标是从头开始创建材料,甚至建造一台永动机.
2040 年,一场突如其来的灾难降临.一种不知名的黑色物质莫名其妙地流淌在月球上,所有接触到它的生物都扭曲了.同年,人类遭受了前所未有的毁灭性打击,人口急剧下降到不到 5 亿.月球轨道以下的区域和 90% 的海洋区域成为不能涉足的禁区.
2041 年,欧美紧急启动了"方舟计划",并在近地轨道上建造了一艘巡航方舟,为幸存的人类提供庇护.中国和苏联在地面上建立了一个坚实的大城邦,坚守着人类的最后地位.他们将黑色物质命名为"黑水",其中混入的少量黑色结晶被称为"神铁".
2043 年,人们发现,生物与黑水融合后,会拥有截然不同且强大的身体机能.这些生物被命名为"外兽".他们很难用常规手段杀死,而且枪支对他们几乎没有影响.他们只能通过摧毁他们到一定程度或先击中他们的核心来摧毁他们.更令人震惊的是,他们也拥有一些奇特的超能力.
2050 年,方舟终于建造成功,带领 8000 万人飞上天空.
2055 年,地面上的城邦也完成了.中国实行双城制,接收亚洲地区难民,在华北平原和溪川平原建立了皇城和盐城,人口达 1.7 亿.苏联建立了一座堡垒,并接收了来自欧洲其他地区的难民,人口为 1.4 亿.
2056 年,人类开始尝试用黑水进行融合手术,但不幸的是,都以失败告终.然而,与神铁的组合显示出成功的迹象.
2059 年,第一次聚变作在方舟上成功完成.
2060 年,人类发起了第一次地面夺回行动,成功夺回了英国海边的一个小镇.然而,在同年的第二次行动中,一名成员突然逃跑,杀死了团队中的 37 人并逃跑了.经过进一步的研究,人们发现,融合率超过 90% 的个体会逃跑,而融合率超过 50% 的个体会发生不可逆的转变.那些通过手术的人被称为"异端".
2063年,帝都与要塞也相继完成了融合作战,并建立了名为"驱逐城"的专项训练机构和战斗机构.
2070 年,手术技术得到改进,融合过程可以更稳定地控制.异教徒可以在正常状态和变形状态之间自由切换,他们的变形形态被称为"伪神态".
2100年,白烨出生.
现在是 2117
教室里的一幕
天空仿佛被墨染成了黑色,黑色的雨滴像细针一样密密麻麻地落下.他们轻轻地敲打着教室的窗帘,缓缓滑落,留下了如蛇一般的黑暗痕迹.教室里,灯光昏暗,气氛沉闷而压抑.倒数第二排的两名学生,一名头发略显凌乱,眼中透着一丝焦虑;另一个则比较平静,嘴角挂着淡淡的笑容,低着头低声说着.
"嘿,你买了之前发行的那本书吗?那个叫'蛇枪'.
"哦,不,我最近没心情读它."
"怎么了?还有什么能让你没有心情读书呢?
"毕业考试就在明天,你根本什么都没感觉!"
"哦,毕业了.我有信心你可以加入培训部门并做一些维护工作.你的成绩应该还不错吧?
"嗯,我之前没怎么焦虑,但主要是因为我表姐前几天考了."难道没有家庭关系吗?恐怕我大概能过关.
"你确实...但我认为现在情况很稳定,对吧?距离上一次"暴雨"不是已经过去了 5 年吗?即使你通过了它,你也不必离开这座城市,对吧?现在不要想它.如果你真的不想去,明天就考,尽量考进高水平科研系.
"你说得对.现在你应该努力学习,每天都要进步.不要和我谈论书.
"你这孩子,要不是我开导了你——"
Before he finished speaking, a piece of chalk flew from the podium and accurately hit the troubled teenager.
"What are you talking about! You dare to complain in my class? I have tolerated you two for ten minutes!" The teacher's voice sounded in the classroom like thunder.
"No, teacher, he came to chat with me, why did you hit me?"
"No, buddy!"
"I don't care who you two chat with! Who told you to chat in my class? This is the last class! And wake up the guy behind you two!"
The two turned around and saw the gray-haired boy in the back row holding his head and sleeping quietly.
"Hey, Brother Bai, don't sleep in this class! Hey, get up, Brother Bai, don't sleep!"
"Swish!" Another piece of chalk flew towards the boy's head. The boy didn't even raise his head, raised his hand and grabbed it-
"Bang!" The hand grabbed nothing. The chalk was inserted into the boy's head, and then knocked the boy to the ground. After a while, the boy staggered to get up and opened his eyes. The silver pupils looked at the teacher with a bit of sleepiness.
"Sorry, teacher, I will listen carefully later..." Before he finished speaking, he fell down again and continued to sleep.
On the podium, the teacher silently broke the last piece of chalk in her hand. She walked down the podium and pulled the pen off the boy's head. The boy looked up again and looked at the teacher.
"Excuse me, do you have any questions?"
"Why don't you go back to sleep? It's uncomfortable to lie in the classroom, right?"
"Because we are in class now."
"Okay." The teacher sighed helplessly, turned around and walked back to the podium, and picked up the pen that she had just thrown at the two people in the front row.
"Bai Ye, are you sure you want to go?" The teacher turned her back and asked softly.
"Yeah." The boy raised his head and supported his face with his hands. As soon as he finished speaking, he lowered his head and whispered to the two people in the front row: "Whether you are qualified or not has nothing to do with genes. The only thing related to it is whether you have a qualified soul."
The teacher walked back to the podium and did not continue the previous explanation. Instead, she looked at the students below the stage: "I know I shouldn't say this, but for your lives, take the exam well tomorrow. If you do well, even if you pass, you may not have to go." After that, she turned around and started to explain again.
"The imperial capital where we live in front of us is divided into seven layers. From top to bottom, they are the multi-layer dome to resist the black water, the outer periphery of the activity area for accepting outsiders and heretics, the living area where we live now, the production area responsible for production, the core layer of the political center, the scientific research area and the energy layer"
Bai Ye buried his head and felt the world in a half-awake and half-dream state. He felt the souls of the two people in the front row-the troubled person did not pass, but the person who enlightened him did. When he was about to fall asleep, he felt the souls of everyone in this class. There were 29 souls in a classroom of 30 people.
"Abai, how did you do on the test?" The boy with glasses pushed his glasses and looked at the gray-haired boy who was slowly walking out of the examination room.
"The second to last question on the back is quite difficult. How did you solve it?" Bai Ye asked indifferently.
"No, there is another one on the back?!" The short-haired man behind Bai Ye rubbed his head, looking frustrated. He was tall, strong, and dark-skinned, but at this moment he was like a deflated ball. "I was busy writing a song and thought I had finished it! I thought I could do well on the test this time, so annoying!"
"How can you do well on the test when your head is full of muscles? Don't forget, you are doing squats in class." Lan Tianyuan complained mercilessly.
"Alan, I exercised to prevent myself from sleeping in class and to listen to the class well! Abai, do you think I did the right thing?" Huang Hao turned his head to look at Bai Ye, trying to seek support.
Bai Ye did not answer, but just looked at the two quietly: "Are you sure you want to go with me?"
"Yes!" The two answered without hesitation, "Isn't this something we have decided long ago?"
---
A few days later, the three stood at the entrance of the heretic area of the Expulsion City. Bai Ye lowered his head in thought, while the other two were chatting.
"Did all three of us really pass?" Huang Hao scratched his head, with disbelief in his tone.
"Didn't Ah Bai say that? We will definitely pass. If we can't pass, how can we leave the city?" Lan Tianyuan glanced at him, his tone calm.
"I just sighed. Isn't this difficult? It takes only a few hundred people to produce one!"
"Yes, to be precise, there are only 100,000 qualified heretics among 200 million people, and the pass rate is one in 20,000. Even among those who pass, nearly half will die during the operation." Lan Tianyuan pushed his glasses, with a hint of solemnity in his tone.
"Wow, so we may still die later? If we die before we get out, it would be a loss! Right, Abai?"
"Abai?" Lan Tianyuan found Bai Ye standing aside without saying a word, as if he was thinking about something.
Bai Ye recalled the words of the person in charge of the physical examination just now: "There are traces of craniotomy on your forehead. You used to have..." Before he finished speaking, the phone rang. The staff member answered the phone, said a few words in a hurry and hung up: "Sorry, please don't take what I just said to heart, your examination is fine."
"Yeah." Bai Ye had no expression on his face. He tried to recall his past, but he couldn't remember anything. He didn't feel fear or confusion about amnesia, only a hint of curiosity in his heart. However, this curiosity also dissipated in just a few seconds, and the confusion just now became a memory, and there was no intention to delve into it.
"Abai?"
"I'm fine." Bai Ye raised his head and looked at the dark building in front of him.
It was a huge courtyard made of dark steel, as large as a mountain, and even trains passed through it. It's more like a city than a building. It's just that the black wall behind it is taller, as if people are living in a "deep well".
"Isn't it spectacular?" Lan Tianyuan followed Bai Ye's gaze, "I heard that it took 10 years to build this expulsion city. The expulsion city in the imperial capital is not comparable to those on the Ark, and even the one in Peruna Fortress can't compare to ours."
"It's really spectacular." Bai Ye responded softly.
"So handsome! You'll stay here in the future, right? I wonder how the food is." Huang Hao rubbed his hands excitedly.
"Don't worry, it's better than what the school provided before." Lan Tianyuan said lightly.
"That's fine. By the way, the surgery just mentioned will be anesthetized, right? Don't give us a steel pipe and let us bite it to carry it. Don't look at me like this, I'm still very afraid of pain!" Huang Hao got goose bumps all over his body when he thought of having surgery.
"How could there be no anesthesia? Do you think we are going to implant some kind of cyber prosthesis?" Lan Tianyuan shook his head helplessly.
---
Bai Ye was lying on the operating table. Although he had been anesthetized, he was very conscious. Although his body could not move, his half-open eyes allowed him to vaguely look at the people who were preparing to operate on him. Although he did not feel pain, he could still feel his body.
They cut open his skin, opened his chest with silver instruments, and set up his heart. A machine held it up, then cut open the heart and put a black crystal in it. The heart began to spread black lines, and black thin lines extended along the blood vessels, and the blood flowing out was mixed with black liquid. After the crystal was placed in the chest cavity, everyone held their breath nervously. About a minute later, the machine made a sound: "Fusion successful!" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The process became fast afterwards. They cut open Bai Ye's head, put a metal capsule into the brain, and inserted a long silver needle. Then, they cut open his limbs, inserted metal coils, and finally stuffed a small strange machine into his abdomen, using the cables on the machine to connect various organs in his body. Finally, the wound began to heal gradually at the moment of suturing.
Bai Ye did not pay much attention to the process of the operation. It was just that when the crystal was placed in the heart, he felt a sense of relief, as if he had returned to his hometown. A manor he had never seen before and a white-haired old man emerged in his mind.
"Grandpa..."
"..." Bai Ye didn't respond, just sat there quietly.
There were bursts of whispers in the classroom. It seemed that everyone didn't think that the thin man in front of them could be a practical instructor, but thought he was more like a scientific researcher. His clean face didn't look like he had ever been in battle.
"Pa!" The noisy voices quieted down the moment Qing Yuming clapped his hands gently. Everyone's chaotic thoughts were pulled back in an instant.
"I know you all think I'm not a real fighter. But, just like you think, I'm better at theory." Qing Yuming said, rolling up his sleeves and tying up his messy hair. He smiled slightly, and a hint of emerald light flashed in his half-open eyes.
"Although I don't like this way of teaching, it is the most efficient way. Go downstairs and practice."
---
13 people stood in the training hall, looking at the slender man in front of them. He was still wearing the loose blue sweater, and he didn't look like a fighter at all.
"The tall guy behind you, you are Huang Hao, right? Your physical fitness was quite high during the physical examination, and the report showed that you had combat training. Do you want to try it first?" Qing Yuming looked at Huang Hao, his tone relaxed.
"Okay! But teacher, can you do it? You don't have much meat on your body, can you fight?" Huang Hao grinned, with a hint of provocation in his tone.
"It's okay, come on." Qing Yuming still smiled.
"Okay, here I come!"
After saying that, Huang Hao strode forward and approached quickly. He put his fists forward to protect his head, and when he got close, he stepped back with his left foot, and pushed forward with his right foot, and his body suddenly moved closer. However, Qing Yuming stepped on Huang Hao's right knee, and stopped his advance. Then, Qing Yuming pressed the back of Huang Hao's head with his hand, and slammed his knee into his chin.
Huang Hao's fists to protect his head did not move throughout the whole process, but he changed from protecting his head to pushing forward, trying to prevent his chin from being hit. However, the expected impact did not come.
"Fake move!" This was Huang Hao's last thought before he fell into a coma. Before he had time to resist, Qing Yuming wrapped his arms around his neck, forming a guillotine, and took away his consciousness. The whole battle took 5 seconds.
Later, someone wanted to try, but Qing Yuming just said lightly: "I'm so tired."
Huang Hao lay on the ground and was unconscious for a minute before waking up.
"That's not right. How could I faint right after he strangled me? Did he cheat?" Huang Hao rubbed his neck, looking confused.
"It's definitely not right. No matter what, it's impossible for him to faint you in less than a second. He has some other means." Lan Tianyuan looked at Qing Yuming's back and thought about his ability alone.
---
Back in the classroom, Qing Yuming stood on the podium.
"Sorry, everyone. I was supposed to have a theoretical class today, but I didn't expect that I was excited and sweated a little with you all." He returned to his previous state of squinting his eyes. Although he didn't sweat, he still joked humorously.
"So, I'm going to hold a small class today."
No one dared to speak...
"Then I'll tell you about the future course schedule: advanced knowledge training, exotic beast research, miracle development and comprehensive combat training."
In this class, I will introduce to you the main targets of annihilation that you will encounter in the future. "
In the clean white room, the cabinets were filled with various glass jars filled with strange organs. Under the podium, 13 people sat at a huge table with two mechanical arms hanging from the table, emitting a cold metallic luster.
Qing Yuming walked in pushing a huge glass jar with a huge "bird" soaking in it.
It was a huge crow with black and gray feathers, nearly two meters long, and its abdomen had been cut open. However, the scene in the abdominal cavity was incomprehensible - the complex organ structure, strange colors and shapes, as if from another world.
Some people did not dare to look at it, and some began to vomit. Only Lan Tianyuan and Bai Ye looked at the scene in the abdominal cavity. Tianyuan's eyes were bright, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and he muttered softly: "Interesting." Bai Ye was still expressionless, with unknown emotions flashing in his silver-white pupils.
"Ah! After seeing this, I definitely can't eat dinner today! "Huang Hao covered his eyes and cried desperately.
After a few minutes, many people came to their senses. Qing Yuming stood on the podium and operated the mechanical arm to lift the bird's body out of the jar and put it on the table. After moving the jar away, he used tools to open the abdominal cavity and show everyone the internal organs.
"This is the alien beast. In simple terms, it can be understood as a mutated beast, which is a mutation caused by the erosion of black water." After saying that, he pulled a bone out of the corpse.
The bone was faintly transparent under the light, like a dark yellow crystal sculpture. The mechanical arm used force to crack the bone. After relaxing, the cracks recovered instantly and a layer of crystals spread on the surface, further strengthening the hardness.
"Crystallized bones, my personal favorite part. The hardness is above 20, and it also has high toughness. After being damaged, it can heal and automatically strengthen. Under such hard conditions, it can still be fully biologically active. There are molecular structures in it that we can't understand at all, but we still use it as a weapon material. There are special teachers to explain this content, so I won't say much. "
Qing Yuming said as he pulled out the internal organs. The complex structure was covered with mucus, and the common organ shape could not be seen. Instead, there was a bloated structure composed of a large organ and multiple small organs around it, like a bunch of grapes. Some small organs were not completely attached to the large organ, but took root in other corners. The internal chaos was like inadequately chopped meat, which was disgusting.
"Multiple organs look disgusting, but they are indeed very practical designs. Small organs can assist the operation of large organs and achieve unimaginable efficiency. After the large organ is destroyed, the small organ can replace it. If the large organ and the surrounding small organs are completely destroyed, the spare organs in other places will develop into large organs and work again. Jian Shou is a fight to the death, beyond imagination. "
Qing Yuming took out a bottle of black liquid from the cabinet and shook it gently. The extremely thick liquid hardly shook, and when it was poured onto the table, it gathered into a ball like dew on a lotus leaf. Then, he operated the mechanical arm to pull out the heart, took out a black crystal from it, and placed it next to the black liquid. The liquid that had been motionless just now suddenly seemed to have life, rushing towards the crystal and wrapping it up first.
"The core and black blood are related, so I will talk about them together. The core in the heart can be used to trigger miracles - this will be explained in detail later, and you can understand it as a special ability now. Another function is to control black blood, just like the old cartoon character "Venom" - you can check it out, but it's not that strong. Black blood has a very high energy carrying capacity and can transport energy at high speed for the activities of alien beasts. By the way, at the end, the core is in the heart most of the time, but it can swim in the blood vessels. This must be remembered. Finally, I would like to mention that not all strange beasts have miracles. Those without miracles are generally summarized as beasts. This will be discussed later. They are secondary targets for annihilation." Qing Yuming tore off the feathers and skin and spread them on the table. The skin is very thick. From the side, it is stacked layer by layer, oozing a small amount of mucus and sticking to the table. The bottom of the feather has dark yellow crystals like bones, and the gray feathers are slightly transparent from a distance. "Crystallized feathers and layered skin. Crystallized feathers are very simple. They have a crystal structure similar to bones, but they will not be reinforced after being damaged, but will fall off first. The feather part is a hollow structure filled with low-density gas for flight. There is a very stable liquid between the layered structure of the skin, which can resist temperature changes and impact, and can also shed automatically-but birds generally do not shed their skin on their own initiative. "Finally, Qing Yuming tore off a large piece of muscle, spread it on the table, and then pulled out a nerve with a meat ball from it. "This is the last reticular muscle and paracerebral nerve network. Reticular muscles are different from our ordinary muscle fibers. The reticular structure provides multi-directional force, which not only has stronger mobility, but also can stop bleeding instantly for puncture wounds and lacerations. The sub-brain in the nerves can still move for a period of time even if it is cut off. It should be noted that the broken limbs can be reconnected with black blood in a short time. "
Qing Yuming used a mechanical arm to carry the body back to the jar, put away the mechanical arm, and walked down the podium.
"Although some things have not been confirmed, we have observed that they have a way of communication, neither language, nor smell or behavior. We currently have no clue about this. They can't be connected to the Internet, right? "
"Neural network, similar to electrical signal communication? Maybe there is a mother body above it. "Tianyuan Shou put forward his own point of view, and then looked at Qing Yuming, waiting for a reply.
"Very thoughtful. However, we have not found anything similar to the mother body yet. I don't know about electrical signals. "This class is just a general introduction. Later, we will give a detailed explanation and analysis of each of the exotic animals we have studied." "Ding-dong-dong--" The bell rang. After everyone left, Bai Ye was still standing in the classroom, staring at the corpse in the jar.