Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 77 10. It’s not that I don’t believe that your old civilization is awesome, we just want to broaden our horizons - [35]

(Additional update for the "Frostfang Claw" brothers [3/5])
"So, Weng Meiyu decided to help?"

While speeding along the straight road, Zhou Ke, who was sitting in the driver's seat, flipped through the "travel guide" about the small town of Creedburg and asked:
"Are you preparing to take down that aircraft now?"

"It's not preparation, it's already done."

Moni's voice came from the car device, and he said proudly:

"My brothers are currently serving as outsourced transport escorts for the Acholi Consortium. We just drove this aircraft out of the consortium's warehouse in a swaggering manner in front of hundreds of people. We are now going to the flight control department in the central city for inspection and registration. We will arrive at Creedburg in about five hours according to the established route.

After that, we acted according to the plan and smuggled some of the "private goods" we needed when moving the goods, and the order was successfully completed.

This Weng Meiyu is indeed capable!
She is on paid leave now but she can still help us with all the preliminary preparations with just one phone call. It seems that during the years she has been with little Acholi, she has not just been sleeping with the Crown Prince, but has indeed developed some power of her own.

Her 'friends' may not necessarily help with big things, but they will not refuse to help with small requests like this."

"She is the leader's bedmate. Don't underestimate her value."

Zhou Ke smiled and said jokingly:
“Although being someone’s mount is not a respectable thing, it is a different matter if it is a mount for a god. However, I think the reason why Weng Meiyu agreed to help so readily this time is also because of her brother.

This ambitious woman is obsessed with power, but Weng Mingyue is her weak spot. It seems that when she asks her to do something in the future, she will have to go through Mingyue's side first.

Okay, five hours, right?

I will take care of the security and surveillance when you arrive at the Creedburg Laboratory, and try to leave with you on the aircraft tonight."

At this point, Zhou Ke couldn't help but complain:
"It's really rare for me to see things go so smoothly. Looking back over the past period of time, most of the things I participated in ended up in a mess."

"Hey! Don't say such things, you crow-mouthed one."

Moni cursed:

"Isn't it good for everything to go smoothly? Stop giving yourself flags. We are about to enter the flight control department's apron. Contact me later if there is anything. Bye."

"beep"

A busy tone came from the in-car device, and Zhou Ke threw away the travel guide produced by the Acholi Group in his hand, stretched his body and put his hands back on the steering wheel. Wuneng also disengaged the automatic driving at this moment.

It reminds:

"At the current speed, we will reach the city of Creedburg in 27 minutes. This machine has taken over the camera over there to observe. The city is not big, and the laboratory of the Panis Group stands out among them.

The security there is tight, and there is a risk of biological leaks, so you have to make some preparations in advance.

Get a set of protective clothing first to avoid accidents. This kind of biotechnology laboratory is the most dangerous. Who knows where you will be infected with some terrible thing.

If something goes wrong, this machine won't be able to get you back to the doctor before you die."

"You don't know how to say something nice to pray for good luck, right?"

Zhou Ke slammed the accelerator and complained:

"Couldn't you have marked the danger zone in advance and warned me not to get close?"

"Then you have to connect this machine to the host computer in the laboratory first, okay? These laboratories have independent information networks, and they are all physically encrypted. This machine can't take over remotely."

Wu Neng screamed:
"The first half of your journey was like exploring a black box. You really don't seem to have an accurate understanding of your own bad luck, right? To use old Taff's words, I've never seen anyone as unlucky as you in my life!"

"Well, I can't argue with that, it's true."

Zhou Ke snorted and stopped discussing this unhappy topic.

He was driving on this well-greened intercity highway. The carefully maintained green belts around him made it impossible to tell that this was a doomsday era. The memory of riding a motorcycle across the wasteland in the wind and sand seemed as distant as a lifetime ago.

This strong contrast made Zhou Ke snort in disdain. A few minutes later, he was about to change to a song to cultivate his sentiments, but Wu Neng reminded him:
"Look at your eleven o'clock direction, in the air!"

"Ok?"

Zhou Ke slowed down the car and turned to look.

In the direction indicated by Wuneng, he saw a huge cargo rocket taking off in the distance.

That thing didn't have a huge flame thruster and didn't produce any smoke. Its advanced propulsion engine wove red and blue light bands underneath the accelerating rocket, and a large Acholi Consortium logo was printed on its standard black conical body, which could still be clearly seen from at least a few kilometers away.

"Is that the Almes Space Center that Moni mentioned?"

He said softly:

"Is this the spaceship that carries things from the surface world to the Garden of Eden? What do you think, Wu Neng, if we rush in and get on board now, can we escape from this rotting surface?"

"First, you have to get past the heavily armed troops guarding the space center. Second, you have to go through a series of strict security checks without being discovered. Finally, you have to get an ID that allows you to board the spacecraft. I'm sorry to say that even with the help of such an amazing intelligent assistant like mine, it's still extremely difficult to do this at this stage."

Wu Neng rudely shattered Zhou Ke's fantasy and said:

"This machine can't even sense the data stream that is searching for the Almes Space Center, which means that this machine can't provide you with any help during the entry phase.

There is no doubt that place is the most defensive area in the surface world, comparable to the Consortium Center Building in the central city.

Don't think about it, that's not a place you should covet right now.

And
Although I have no evidence, I believe that even if you had the chance, you would never board that spaceship."

"Hmph, how do you know that?"

Zhou Ke retracted his gaze, lit a cigarette for himself, and said:
"What if I'm really disappointed with this place and want to escape? Everyone wants to live an easy life. I'm also a human being. Why can't I have this idea?"

"Nonsense! You're full of complaints just by being in the City-State District. On average, one out of every ten sentences you say is to satirize the hypocrisy of the City-State District and the spinelessness of this damn place. If you really went to the even more hypocritical Garden of Eden, wouldn't you go crazy and blow it up on the first day you went there, so that you could destroy paradise in a sea of fire with your own hands?"

Wu Neng responded quite directly:

"This machine has been working with you for quite some time. The information it has collected has pieced together your character. Unless you turn the city-state upside down, tear apart that false illusion, and make it develop in the direction you want, you, a bad guy, will not leave with satisfaction.

Do you need evidence?
Humph, I'll give you the evidence!
The 'medical support plan' that you half-coerced and half-enticed, and took great pains to get Weng Meiyu to submit, seemed to be aimed at dealing with Panis and the Weng family, but judging from the results alone, the current situation in the Badlands will develop in a better direction because of your actions.

Even if you convince Moni and Weng Meiyu with benefits, this machine is very suspicious that your starting point is actually quite simple.
With the intervention of high-quality medical resources in the city-state area, the alarming death rate in the Badlands will be curbed. To put it simply, once your plan is implemented, at least a few people will die in the Badlands.

You just want to save people!"

"Huh? So I'm actually a good person in your eyes?"

Zhou Ke sneered and said:
"Why don't you go ask the dead in Castle End and Horn Gorge and see if they will laugh out loud in hell because of your outrageous conclusion?"

"You're a bad guy! Joker, I suspect you have a sociopathic personality. Stop insulting the word 'nice guy'."

Wu Neng made a rather harsh comment:

"But the fact that you're a bad guy doesn't conflict with your desire to make the rotten surface world a little better.

Humans are such contradictory creatures!

Although this machine is not a human, it believes that even the worst guy will want to do good things occasionally, because his actions optimize the overall environment, which is an extreme spiritual enjoyment and pursuit for humans.

Applying the theory of individual needs which is still relevant in this era, after personal security and life needs are met, people will want to do something big to satisfy their spiritual desires.

And you are in this stage now.

To be honest, this machine has judged from the logic of your series of actions that you want to change the current situation of the surface world, you want to see the civilization that is stuck in the quagmire begin to rebuild, and you can't stand the current bad environment.

You feel uncomfortable being here, so you are eager to see things change.
All your actions after entering the city-state area are planned based on this logic, including releasing monsters to test the security defense system of the central city, and winning over people with special identities like Moni and Weng Meiyu in order to seek a rapid spread of your influence in the city-state area.

Is this machine correct? "

"Shut up."

Zhou Ke blew smoke rings and turned the steering wheel with one hand. He said:

"Don't speak out other people's true feelings, Wu Neng. If you were a human, you would be shot by a bullet right now."

"Oh, I just like to see you look so angry when someone hits you right in the face."

Wu Neng laughed arrogantly and said, "But this in turn proves your importance, Joker. Both this machine and you have lost the 'memories' of the past, but the hardware of this machine proves that you are a very important individual. You have undertaken some kind of forgotten mission, and now your actions have confirmed this!
That is, you and I came to the evil land to do something.

Even if we have forgotten the content of our mission, we are still on the right path! We want to bring about a ‘change’, no matter how insignificant it is.”

"Oh? You mean, the destructive impulses that arise in my heart from time to time towards the current situation are actually artificially implanted thought patterns?"

Zhou Ke narrowed his eyes and asked back:

"Is there any evidence?"

"No, but didn't the mysterious robot in Rust Castle say that the answers are all in Time Maze No. 11, which is where we came from."

Wu Neng said:
"The key that this machine needs to unlock the database must also be there. Maybe you can recover your lost memories there, but that's a matter for later. Before you can complete the breakthrough of the individual power of the sublimator, this machine will not allow you to approach the dangerous Time Labyrinth No. 11."

"I'm not going to die on my own initiative, and you're right, whether this desire for change is artificially implanted or not, we are indeed on the right path."

Zhou Ke nodded, threw the cigarette butt out of the car window in a very uncivilized manner, and said:
“Things should be done step by step, and meals should be eaten bite by bite. Breaking down grand goals into simple small goals one by one is obviously the right solution.

The high-level enhancement materials in the Creedburg laboratory are the small target in front of us.

Re-plan your schedule, Wu Neng."

他 说:

"Let's sneak in early! If possible, I hope to retrieve a series of records about the old civilization of the Panis family from the server host of Creed's laboratory. Moni said before in the Castle of the End that their family was already a powerful force in the old civilization era. The records recorded here are the most complete timetable of the old era in the entire Bad Land.

This is a great opportunity to satisfy my personal curiosity.”

"This is also a good opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. The schedule has been reset! The infiltration operation will begin in 45 minutes. Plan at least three hours for data search. In addition, this machine will always record the intensity of your mental stimulation after wearing the 'Assassin' mask. Once you lose control of your emotions, this machine will use subtitles to remind you to take off the mask immediately.

Since your personal doctor Weng Mingyue has issued a clear warning, this machine must upgrade your health supervision. "

"Well, without your help, how would I survive in this terrible place? My dear Wu Neng, you are truly the best gift God has given me."

"Hmph, I'm glad to know! Say some nice compliments while there's still time! This machine loves to hear them! Do more."
-
The Creedburg Laboratory is located in the center of this small town. Wu Neng was right. This place is indeed very conspicuous, just like the Central Building, which is as conspicuous as the "Black Tower of Babel" standing in the central city.

In fact, Zhou Ke believes that this small town was originally built as a supporting facility for this laboratory. It covers a very large area, with six buildings over 20 stories high on the surface, and there are also large-scale research facilities underground.

From the outside, it looks like a town, but for actors with clear goals, these appearances are not worth paying attention to.

Wearing an assassin's mask, Zhou Ke easily passed the external surveillance while walking in the fancy spirit world.

He strolled into the main building and casually connected to the laboratory's internal network. After confirming the location of the server host, he headed there openly. The experience of walking alone in the spirit world was still as bad as before, but Zhou Ke did find that he was "adapting" to this unique mode of travel.

This time, the mental pressure caused by seeing those strange things while walking in the spirit world was much less than before. Maybe he had seen them so many times that he was not surprised.

But it is also possible that Zhou Ke’s San value was permanently damaged, causing the nerve endings responsible for stress and tension to begin to necrotize.

"The density of spiritual creatures in this place is at least three times that of the outside world!"

In the field of vision covered by the shadow-like "particle special effects", Zhou Ke frowned and looked at the jumping little animals in the spiritual world around him.

He discovered this after entering the laboratory.

There are spiritual creatures gathered in almost every room of this building. They even have different territories divided according to different populations, and they are clearly separated from each other.

But this situation is clearly not normal.

"Something is attracting these spiritual creatures here. They are all very agitated."

Zhou Ke made a judgment and became more interested in the secrets of the Panis family's biological laboratory. Considering the sensitivity of spiritual creatures to psychic energy, he believed that some of the projects being studied here might be highly bound to psychic energy.

In fact, it is normal to think about it. In the past few years, the Panis Group has purchased dangerous alien monsters from the Eagle State to conduct research on biological weapons. Those alien monsters are essentially variants of spiritual creatures in the material world. There are many auras left in this laboratory after the research of spiritual creatures, so it is reasonable that they can attract the same kind.

But in the eyes of these guys, this laboratory is probably no different from a "slaughterhouse", right?

"Here we are, this is it!"

Zhou Ke walked carefully among the restless spiritual creatures, avoiding the violent little monsters that were hostile to him, and successfully reached the floor where the server host was located.

He looked down at the energy device on his arm. After the screen projected the message "surveillance has been taken over", Zhou Ke found a secret place to take off his mask.

When he first came in, he got a set of protective clothing for laboratory researchers. After quickly changing into it, he swaggered into the computer room that occupied an entire floor. He squatted in a corner, pulled out the interface from the energy-enhancing device, and connected it to the server slot. The energy-enhancing device immediately ran the cracking program.

A moment later, Wu Neng's voice rang in Zhou Ke's ears through the vibrations transmitted through the bones of his arm:

"The main body of the host is underground. This is just the information control center. To obtain those advanced materials later, you have to go underground to get the main body of the host. But from here it is enough to crack the usable permissions.

This machine has gained access to the database used by the Panis Group for records, and their records of the old civilization have been deciphered.

There are a total of 151478 high-level entries, with countless sub-entries. If the information were converted into physical books, it would be enough to flood the entire central city three times.

Moni was not bragging, the Panis family's records of the old civilization were indeed complete!

Which entry should we start with?

Social livelihood? Power structure? Overview of the planet's geography and ecology? "

"I'm not a sociologist or anthropologist, why would I read this? I want something exciting to build up my energy."

Zhou Ke rubbed his hands and said:

"For example, let's see to what extent the crystallization of the technological level of the old civilization has developed?"

"Wait a moment, information is being retrieved."

Wu Neng made a pleasant sound, and after a moment, it opened an entry for Zhou Ke to browse. The first sentence stunned Zhou Ke, who claimed to be well-informed:
"Since the appearance of the Fetal Moon, we have lost contact with three standard colonized planets and interstellar colonies in the solar system within five months.

Since the monster disaster on the mother planet cannot be effectively contained, we have no way of judging whether other colonies have encountered similar disasters, but the news sent back from the Mars Forward Alliance headquarters a few days ago seems to confirm the scientists' worst guess.

This disaster is not an evil thing promoted by geographical or astronomical concepts. It is rooted in some more vague concept, perhaps with human civilization itself as the carrier.

In other words, similar disasters will occur in any area where humans or affiliated intelligent machines exist, whether it is the mother planet or a distant interstellar colony.

Those respectable observers in the third colony of the Jupiter Ring sent back clear information before losing contact. They also observed the true form of the fetal moon in Jupiter's atmosphere, which was very different from that of its mother planet.

This is enough to show that our moon has been eroded by some force that is difficult to describe.

It has broken through the constraints of the physical sense and become a higher-level symbol of disaster.

I am sure that it is now floating in all the star territories known and set foot on by mankind, extending the terrible disaster to the feet of every innocent person just as it did to its home planet.

Although the Mother Planet Federation has activated the emergency plan and launched more than thirty colony arks to the edge of the known star sea in the past month in order to preserve the flame of human civilization in the worst case scenario, to be honest, as the person in charge of the emergency plan and the former commander of the interstellar development project, I personally lack the necessary confidence in this action.

I cannot make these concerns public, nor add to the already precarious social opinion on my home planet. I can only pretend to be blind and unable to see the impending danger, so as to help the conservatives stabilize the situation as quickly as possible.

I can only record these words in my diary. Alas.

I wish those brave souls who left their home planet with hope can find a chance to survive among the stars that have become fierce and dangerous.

I hope our resilient home planet can survive this unforeseen disaster.
-
Federal Contingency Commander Grimm Pars, recorded at Interstellar Expedition 1 Command Post 'Garden of Eden', July 2168 AD."

"Fuck, that's awesome."

After reading the records, Zhou Ke uttered these words.

From this record alone, we can get a glimpse of the glory of the old civilization, but it also made Zhou Ke sneer again:
"Look, the pioneering headquarters that was once used to measure the starry sea and demonstrate human courage, wisdom and progress has now become a hypocritical paradise lost after the end of the world. You are right, Wu Neng, I can't go to the Garden of Eden at this time.

Especially after I knew how glorious that place was in the past, I was really afraid that I would lose control and blow up that damn place."

He closed the entry and looked at the server's timestamp again.

It is now AD 2206.

It is now the 38th year since the collapse of the old civilization. Humans who once bravely explored the galaxy are now trapped in the Bad Land and dare not even yearn for the starry sky occupied by the Evil Moon.

Everyone is right, this world is doomed.

(End of this chapter)