latent body

Chapter 111 The Secret of the World 4
"The computer's original record is recorded like this: Since they want to leave, let them go. People who yearn for freedom have noble sentiments. Their voluntary going to the surface is an admirable act of bravery. As base controllers, we should Give them the help they deserve, especially food, give them as much as they want, and never be stingy."

Ling Zihan understood the special meaning hidden in this passage: "Ensure that they survive as much as possible?"

Victoria's eyes flashed with admiration: "You are really smart. Yes, let them live, live tenaciously and seriously."

Ling Zihan speculated from his own logic: "As for safety...isn't that important?"

Victoria gave him a thumbs up: "Because all those who yearn for freedom and leave the underground shelter have become experimental subjects in a broad sense."

Some of the questions in Ling Zihan's mind were finally answered: "The purpose of providing food is to allow them to live better, and then secretly monitor and observe their living conditions in the radiation environment?"

Victoria continued to sip her coffee: "This is a choice they made voluntarily, and no one forced them from the beginning to the end. Dr. Cornell's proposal was quickly unanimously endorsed by other members of the association. This is extremely unprecedented in the entire history of the association. rare."

"A more complete plan was perfected in the second week after the first group of free agents left the shelter. The "grid monitoring plan" was implemented according to different regions. More detailed standards were implemented in writing."

"It needs to be pointed out that at the beginning of the formulation of the plan, no matter the suggestions made by the members and the relevant implementation standards, they were full of goodwill. The monitoring of free people is only for observation, and then to collect necessary biological data. Especially Dr. Cornell, who initiated the initiative, even organized a rapid support medical team, which is on call around the clock, ready to treat the liberty in case of sudden discomfort and danger in the body."

"Including the president of the association at the time, no one thought that this had a negative effect."

"Dr. Cornell's medical team was dispatched for the first time on June 22, the fifth year of the New Earth Calendar. The patient was a [-]-year-old woman named Jennifer. The diagnosis and treatment records showed that she contracted radiation sickness, but at that time The overall extent does not appear to be serious and can be cured with traditional medical treatments combined with a healthy lifestyle and a nutritious diet."

"The only problem is that Jennifer has a polyp on her right calf due to long-term exposure to radiation. Dr. Cornell's team repeatedly reviewed the drone surveillance video and determined that it must be removed, otherwise the polyp will inevitably exist for a long time. The effect on Jennifer's body."

Ling Zihan asked while thinking: "She refused to accept treatment?"

"To be precise, it should be that she refused to contact the medical team." Victoria explained: "The free people think that the environment of the shelter is complicated, and the communication between people is full of too many utilitarian elements, and many so-called "new rising sects" The teachings are incompatible with the orthodox religion, and they are secretly manipulated by the so-called new pope. They appear to be high-sounding, but actually fill their own pockets. Therefore, even the members of the Doctors United Association refused to trust and refused to cooperate. They took the initiative Breaking contact with the shelter, destroying every drone that is found, in order to show the firm determination to never return even if it is wandering in the wilderness."

"I understand." Ling Zihan nodded slowly, and he had a completely different understanding and cognition of this: "From my perspective as a bystander, this matter is actually caused by the leaders of the shelter and the Doctors Association. Problem. Since those people left voluntarily and made it clear that they don’t want to have anything to do with those who stay in the refuge, methods such as secret surveillance will definitely arouse hostility from the other party, and it is normal to fight back with various violent means.”

Victoria's point of view is different from Ling Zihan's.She tried to prove it: "No, no, no, that's not the point. You have to understand that the surface environment was not what it is now. Although the radiation level was slight, the fallout from space was spread over a large area, so to speak. No place is immune."

Ling Zihan interrupted Victoria: "I understand what you mean. The Doctors United Association needs experimental subjects and needs more data on live lesions."

"Yes." Victoria did not deny it. Her eyes revealed the calm, decisive, merciless, and even cruel eyes that belong to a doctor: "There are people in this world every day... no, it should be every minute. Death. Their bodies rotted away in just a few hours, broken down by microorganisms into a mass of unrelated, fetid substances.”

"Simply put, it's rubbish."

"In this case, why can't these corpses, even when they are alive...I mean the last time when they were diagnosed as incurable, let them undergo a series of experiments, from which we can find out the biological secrets we need, so as to save more How many lives?"

Ling Zihan raised his hand, and made a slow movement to stop Victoria, whose face was full of justice.

"Doctor, I admit that what you said is reasonable. But there must be a balance between legal principles and morality. I have seen many despicable and dirty behaviors in the wilderness. The reason why I like Floating Cloud City is not because it can provide enough. It is not a kind of daily necessities, but because of the law here: if you kill someone, you must pay for it.”

Victoria suddenly seemed a little anxious, and she quickly defended: "It's two different things, I mean..."

Ling Zihan suddenly smiled.His smile had a special effect of reassurance.When Victoria looked at him with a gentle smile on his brows, lips, and cheeks, she immediately became relieved, and her mental state also relaxed.

"...I understand..." The elderly Caucasian female doctor took a long breath and subconsciously changed to a more comfortable sitting position. She looked at Ling Zihan and asked politely, "So, shall I continue the previous story?"

Ling Zihan smiled: "I've been listening, and I'm full of interest in it."

"Because the free people's resistance was very firm, Dr. Cornell had to lead the medical team to secretly approach Jennifer's team according to the drone surveillance records. When she left the group to fetch water from the river, he forcibly took her away. Take away."

Ling Zihan shook his head, his face was full of disapproval: "This is too radical. I always think that the best way to communicate is to negotiate, and it is done on the premise of first giving the other party what they need. Only by getting benefits, Others will have the patience to listen to your request."

"Dr. Cornell has a hot temper," explained Victoria. "Information shows that he was vice-captain of the football team in college. Too many people have a hard time connecting that rough and brutal sport with the profession of 'doctor'." .But the fact that Dr. Cornell is not only a football player, but also a double quarterback."

"All he wants to do is to perform a minor operation on Jennifer, remove the polyps, and do limited simple treatment for her radiation sickness. Of course, the main reason for doing this is not to save lives, but to test some special Are the drugs working?"

"There is a difference between the long-distance monitoring of the drone and the face-to-face data analysis and extraction of the test subject. Although Dr. Cornell was fully prepared when he set off, he himself and even several members of the medical team were also physically strong. A grown man, but when they caught Jennifer planning to operate on her in the field, a sudden accident happened."

"In order to avoid being recognized by the free men, all members of the medical team, including Dr. Cornell, wore head covering masks. Jennifer must have been frightened. She suddenly burst out with extremely powerful strength and kicked Smashed Dr. Cornell's testicle..."

"Wait!" Ling Zihan quickly interrupted her, and asked in amazement: "Kicked to pieces? How did you know so clearly? Is there a live video?"

"Yes." Victoria nodded: "At that time, two drones were in charge of filming the whole process. It was an intelligent model developed at the end of the war in the old era. Autotail in search mode."

"The more terrifying things are yet to come. Jennifer's behavior at the time was simply a crazy lioness. She broke free, opened her mouth like a wild beast, bit the throat of the nearest medical staff, and twisted another person's arm... When I saw this video for the first time, I couldn't believe my eyes. You know she is not a half-robot, half-cyborg, but a real pure-blooded human."

"Jennifer in the video is covered in blood. She holds the arm that was torn from the poor man's body in her mouth, and bites the muscles near the cut. No matter her movements or eyes, she doesn't look like a human being at all. Rather, savage predators in a state of rage and hunger."

"Dr. Cornell kept screaming, and the rest of the team panicked. Although they were armed, no one expected to encounter such a thing. It was not until they recovered from their mental sluggishness that they hesitated. They should have drawn their guns."

"I'm not talking nonsense. They were really hesitant. They moved slowly. They might think that the other party was a little girl. The reason why they reacted so violently was that they were overly frightened. If there were professional military and police personnel present at the time, they would never have been like this. Jennifer He will definitely be shot and killed, and there will be no subsequent incidents."

"Finally a medical staff shot at her. Because Dr. Cornell had repeatedly stated before leaving that no one could be hurt. The main purpose of going out this time was to remove polyps for Jennifer, so he deliberately lowered the muzzle of his gun and aimed at the target. right leg."

"Jennifer was shot in the leg and she was terrified and turned and ran as fast as she could."

"The situation has become a mess. One member of the medical team died and two were seriously injured. It is impossible to continue to implement the plan in this state, and we can only leave with the wounded."

"During this process, the drone kept monitoring and shooting the whole process, and at the same time sent a signal to the base, that is, the shelter, requesting additional support."

"Because it was a secret operation, the place where the medical team captured Jennifer was about [-] kilometers away from the base. There were no vehicles available at that time, and the terrain was complicated. It took at least one hour for the reinforcements to arrive at the scene of the incident. half an hour."

"No.308 minutes after Jennifer escaped, this is the time recorded by the drone. Dr. Cornell's medical team was besieged by as many as hundreds of free men."

"The scene was so horrific. Those people...if they can still be called human."

"They have no sense at all, biting wildly like wild beasts, as if the other party is not their own kind, but a living prey, even food."

"Everything happened too suddenly, and there are all signs that this is a premeditated ambush. Terrible free men swarmed from all directions, completely submerging the entire medical team like a tide."

"In that case, there was no time to shoot, or even take up a weapon. Because each other is human, some of them knew each other when they were in the shelter, and they had a good relationship. They never dreamed that each other would Without saying a word, he pounced on him, opened his mouth to bite in the most primitive way, and slammed his fist on himself."

Ling Zihan listened quietly, and an indescribable special feeling suddenly surged in his heart.

"Doctor, you mentioned a word repeatedly just now, beast." He looked at Victoria with inquiring eyes: "Intuition tells me, those people, the free group, are they the current mob?"

Victoria's expression was a bit bitter, she was silent for a few seconds, and she nodded slowly: "Although I don't want to admit it, you guessed it right."

"Yes, those people who left the refuge have undergone changes in their bodies and thinking logic. This change was not too strong in the first generation, that is, when the Cornell medical team was completely wiped out. In the second stage, That is to say, five years later, they can no longer be called human beings, and have become beasts with the same appearance as us."

"The members of the entire medical team were killed on the spot. Those terrible free men bit their throats and blood was splashed everywhere. The heads of all the members of the team, including Dr. Cornell, were torn from the corpses and placed On the face of a large rock, stacked into a triangular mountain."

Ling Zihan's eyes showed a trace of seriousness: "Did they do something to that girl before taking revenge on the medical team?"

"Maybe!" Victoria's answer was ambiguous: "I can only analyze it from a logical level. The reason why the top-secret information refers to that period as the "first generation" is because after the Jennifer incident, the base regards the freers as As a mutant, that is, a monster in the conventional concept."

(End of this chapter)