Cyber ​​Sword Immortal Iron Rain

Patient Zero did not directly answer Fang Bailu's question. After a brief pause, he talked about something else:

"You've been to chat rooms before—those chat rooms that call themselves 'immortals.' Ha, judging from the time and era, they are just children in our eyes... When you started hibernating, their grandfather's grandfather was not even a fertilized egg."

"Children of the Bohemian Era...ha."

"So you should remember that all humans still active on Earth today—except us, the Hibernating Dragons—are their descendants. They created them with their own genetic material and some things from the old-fashioned gene storage bank."

"Why do they do this? Because they are too lonely - or in other words, a king without subjects, a master without slaves, a god without creators...what is he?"

……

Fang Bailu felt the contempt in Patient Zero's words, as well as the unfinished subtext in his words.

So he spread his hands slightly to his side, pointed at Patient Zero, and then pointed back at himself.

"So where do all the 'old folks' like us go?"

Patient Zero coughed a few times, but there was no phlegm in his trachea. This coughing seemed to be more like a way to vent some emotions or to give himself more time to sort out the words he was about to say:

"They... left. They crossed the sea of ​​suffering and reached the other side—"

"People in the old world have ascended. But not in the way you think now."

"Have you ever thought about how to make this world free of pain, conflict and trouble? Everyone can live happily forever—"

……

Fang Bailu sneered through his nose:

"If you're trying to convince me to give the world some chemical bliss or some flesh-and-blood fantasy, you're really being unsophisticated - and there's no need to go to all that trouble."

Patient Zero chuckled - as kind as his age:

"You really underestimate the wisdom of our ancestors. In fact, they eventually came up with new methods and ideas - ideas that could create a paradise for everyone."

"all in all,"

"Some people believe that all troubles come from the interaction between humans, or whatever you want to define it, when multiple humans gather together, how should we say it..."

"You know, humans are social animals."

"So, in the end, they chose a completely new solution: to let all human beings have their own paradise; paradises that are forever separated from each other."

"You can think of it as a perfect world - all individuals are self-sufficient and can achieve all perfection and wishes; naturally there is no war or harm - a perfect world of eternal peace."

……

pat.

Patient Zero grasped the handle of the crutch, twisted it gently, and then broke it off - compared to his age, Patient Zero had a pair of steady hands. He opened the symmetrical shell of the handle: inside was an old-fashioned remote control with raised buttons all over it:

"This solution is 'parting'. Literally... you can also understand it as 'ascension', if that helps you."

……

It was as if Patient Zero had suddenly become a salesman knocking on doors and displaying his wares door to door:

"Humans once believed that the Earth, the solar system, the Milky Way, and even the universe outside the solar system were too vast to be filled even if humans spent countless generations."

"But the fact is: even the entire universe is too small for human beings."

"Thankfully, humans eventually discovered this... and developed the technology to 'part ways.'"

He reattached the handle to the cane and snapped it shut.

……

Fang Bailu let Patient Zero deliver his speech without interrupting him: because the two words he heard were -

leave.

This word made Fang Bailu narrow his eyes.

Before this conversation began and before Patient Zero seemed to be born from nothingness... the hibernating dragon chained to the fetal sea - the clay man - had also uttered this word, which seemed clear but whose specific reference was unclear.

After that, the clay man activated some kind of instrument:

And just like that he disappeared... taking with him the air, dust and soil around him.

……

Perhaps it was because of his age, or perhaps it was because of his personality - Patient Zero's thinking was extremely unconventional: he did not continue to elaborate on the separation, but instead started a whole new topic.

He suddenly raised his hands and patted his body:

"Mr. Fang, do you know? In addition to the fact that we are both hibernators, you and I are different: I am a 'future person'... in the truest sense."

Fang Bailu did not pursue the previous topic: the term suddenly uttered by Patient Zero made him even more interested.

He once again looked Patient Zero up and down - he had already confirmed that Patient Zero was a perfectly normal human being:

"Has time travel really been invented in the future? So you're from... a hundred years in the future? A thousand years? Or...?"

……

Patient Zero was stunned for a moment, then laughed awkwardly:

"Oh, sorry - my words could be misunderstood."

"Perhaps I should describe myself as 'a person of the future'... Well, maybe I need some more specific examples to explain."

Fang Bailu spread his hands and motioned Patient Zero to continue his explanation; originally, he just wanted to tease the other party a little.

……

"Do you... smoke? Or drink?"

Fang Bailu raised his palm: cartilage that was white and almost transparent grew out and extended from the palm of his hand; from the slender and straight cylinder, there extended a curved, sunken disk: this was a goblet growing out of his body.

There is no overturned bottle - but the glass gradually fills and overflows.

He pursed his lips and pointed to Patient Zero at the crystal clear red liquid in his hand:

"I don't smoke or drink anymore. Addictive things don't mean much to me anymore..."

"Want to drink? Wine: I can skip the crushing, pressing and fermentation and go straight to the output."

Snapped--

With a soft crisp sound, the goblet in Fang Bailu's hand broke away from his palm - he held the glass of wine in front of Patient Zero.

……

The old man covered his mouth and nose with his left hand and waved his right hand tiredly to block the wine glass that Fang Bailu put in front of his face:

"You're humorous... and funny: Are you playing on the Jesus joke? Turning water into wine? But I don't want to taste other people's bodily fluids, and this isn't the place where water becomes wine."

"Besides - I don't smoke or drink. Whether it comes from your body or not, I'm not going to try it."

“There is nothing in my diet that could be harmful to health.”

Fang Bailu took back the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp. Then, the wine glass that had grown out of his body silently retracted into his palm.

"Then your recipe probably doesn't have that many dishes written down."

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Chapter 349: Farewell (Part )

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Patient Zero didn't care about Fang Bailu's ridicule:

"Many people—no, most people—are comfortable consuming unhealthy foods or developing habits that are not good for their health—"

"Because the consequences of these actions will only be realized in the distant future: more than ten years or even decades; while the pleasure and comfort in the brain can be obtained immediately."

"But if you tell them that if they smoke a cigarette today or drink a glass of beer, they will have pharyngitis, sore throat, or even lung and liver cancer tomorrow."

"Then perhaps, many smokers or alcoholics will stop these behaviors... because these huge threats that will arrive in the future have arrived first."

“Most people cannot see the future results.”

……

"Relatively..."

"Some people can 'see' the consequences of what they do today for tomorrow."

"To me...there's no difference between something that happens decades from now and something that happens tomorrow."

"A little bit of behavior today, a habit formed unconsciously, and the bad consequences in the future."

"I will feel the same shock and horror as if it were to happen tomorrow."

……

Patient Zero rested his elbows on his knees and leaned forward towards Fang Bailu:

"So - you could say that I am more sensitive to the 'future': I often feel that I am the kind of person who, after reading the preface of a book, wants to turn to the book to read the ending first..."

"In our time... at the end of the golden age, there were many people like me; some people called our situation 'Qi Ren Syndrome' - you know, worrying about nothing. But we ourselves prefer to call ourselves 'Future People' or 'Future Species'."

"At first, some people thought that the 'wolf syndrome' was just an urban hysteria, a collective hallucination. But in fact, it was created and spread deliberately by humans: this is not an urban legend. People believe that in the beginning, there was a person who was far-sighted enough to see what might happen in the future... the self-destruction of mankind."

"Of course, there are many versions: some say that he foresaw the end through the simulation of the visualization machine - but as I said, the visualization machine is a name that only appeared in the era of debauchery - others say that he used mystical means, or simply got a glimpse of the future in a big dream."

"In short, everyone simply calls this earliest 'future man' the 'Qi Man' or the 'Cursed Prophet Cassandra'."

……

"Finally, this 'Qi Ren'——"

"Having a great many intellectual descendants: so many that most people will influence their offspring through genetic modification, so that they have a physical and spiritual sensitivity to the 'future'."

Fang Bailu raised his hand and pointed at the other party:

"Such as you."

Patient Zero nodded:

"like me."

……

Fang Bailu raised his eyebrows:

"At first, I thought you were from the future... But after hearing what you said, I felt a little disappointed. I feel like you are just too - it's really like what you said, too 'worrying'."

He still didn't miss any opportunity to ridicule the other party. Somehow, Fang Bailu gradually found it difficult to restrain his plan for Patient Zero.

Patient Zero smiled and nodded to express his understanding - he didn't seem to notice Fang Bailu's ridicule:

"I'm sorry to disappoint you: but my condition is actually the result of transformation."

"I am not an 'isolated case'. There are many people who have undergone similar transformations as me..."

"In fact, 'separation' is the result of our joint efforts: if humans are allowed to explore naturally, they will eventually lead themselves to the cliff and then step on the air..."

Snapped!

He slapped his palm on his thigh:

"In the end, nothing will remain of the Earth and humanity."

"In fact: before separation technology is developed, humanity is only one step away from a civil war of the highest intensity."

……

For a moment, the two fell into silence and the conversation stopped.

After chewing and digesting it for a while, Fang Bailu understood the definition given by Patient Zero -

But the most important concept is still missing.

This time, it was Fang Bailu who spoke first:

"Let's get back to the topic of 'goodbye' first—"

"What exactly is separation?"