Chapter 20
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Yi Shi Si Zhou
The second the operator's voice fell, Lu Feng's expression changed.
He turned around and left, the lighthouse researcher quickly followed, the car of the court was parked outside the gate of the city defense station, the young judge ran over: "Colonel!"
Lu Yan: "You stay and assist the city defense station."
"Colonel, is the Inquisition called?"
Lu Yan glanced at the sparse crowds on the road: "Close the city gate and gather in District 5."
"Yes." The judge said: "Colonel, be careful."
Lu Yan didn't speak, the car door closed with a slam, the engine started, he slammed the steering wheel, the black car quickly turned around, and drove towards the dispersal center of District 1 like an arrow, followed closely by Howard's car and The heavy armor of the city defense post.
In the back seat, the researcher is holding a communicator and is also talking to someone. He is being questioned.
"On the way to the dispersal center," said the researcher. "We have to prepare for the worst."
"At present, it is suspected that the special frequency band used by the ultrasonic dispersing instrument to drive away arthropods and birds has attracted underground worms while playing a role. But there is no doubt that this is a premeditated attack."
"Yes, we are contacting the locations of the rest of the dispersing instruments."
At the same time, in the center of the city, the sound of the alarm tower suddenly sounded, and the continuous sharp and long sound was deafening. The sparse people on the street in the early morning changed their expressions drastically when they heard it. After looking at each other, they ran to the nearest building. Object - the meaning of continuous long beeping is "emergency refuge".
At the same time, the street broadcast started, and the soft mechanical female voice said: "Alarm, due to the failure of the ultrasonic dispersing device, insects, birds and worm monsters may appear in the city in the near future. Before confirming the troubleshooting, please close the doors and windows immediately and stop going out. Once you find something suspicious, please call the emergency communication immediately and contact the city defense station. The base military will do its best to protect your safety."
"Alarm, due to the failure of the ultrasonic dispersing device, insects, birds, and worm-like monsters may appear in the city in the near future..."
There was a continuous "bang" sound of closing windows from the residential buildings in all directions, and the staff and prisoners of the city defense station were quickly transferred to the nearest residential area.A steady stream of armored vehicles drove out from various stations of the base where the city defense was located, and scattered to various places on the road.
An Zhe, Boss Xiao, and the poet are in the same room, and the city defense station is overwhelmed by themselves. One of them committed the crime of incitement, the other committed the crime of illegally stealing information from the judge, and the other was charged with some strange crimes. The charges for the crimes-in short, there was no lethality, no soldiers supervised them, they just locked the door.
"The dispersal center remotely manages all dispersal devices in the outer city," the poet looked out the window. "In the wild air, even a small flying insect may infect humans. Safe, not even a fly can fly into the base. If something really happened to the dispersal center, then we have already exposed the whole city to the possibility of infection. For insects in the breeding season, human flesh and blood are the best breeding ground for eggs .”
An Zhe sat on the bare bed with his knees hugged, and he asked, "What will happen?"
The poet stretched out his hand and pinched the back of his neck: "Suppose a small bug laid eggs in your skin last night, and the bug's gene and human's gene would fuse. After three days at the latest, you will be a human body inside." A skin sac that contains hundreds of millions of worm eggs. Little worms fly out of your eyes, your airways, onto other people, and soon—”
Boss Xiao dissatisfied: "Don't scare the children."
The poet slowly closed his hands: "I'm serious."
An Zhe suddenly saw the alien whose stomach was cut open by Lu Feng in the supply station square that day. His abdominal cavity and respiratory tract were full of translucent worms.
He said: "Then what should I do?"
The poet shook his head.
"We can only pray that there is no major accident in the dispersal center, or that the dispersal instrument can be repaired soon after the accident, otherwise..." He sighed softly: "Otherwise, there will be an outbreak of infection in the whole base, or... a trial The day will come again."
An Zhe frowned and looked at the empty street outside the window.
But Boss Xiao asked, "Do you know Judgment Day?"
"I've heard a little bit," said the poet.
Boss Xiao sighed: "I thought that as long as I stayed in the base honestly, I could live to the end of my old age."
"The base has been safe for too long." The poet is still looking into the distance: "I always forget that safety is only temporary, and danger is eternal. Living is not what we deserve, living is a gift."
An Zhe couldn't understand much, and he didn't know how to ask questions.
He has only one question: "What is Judgment Day?"
Boss Xiao glanced at him: "I forgot to ask you. What's the matter with your clothes?"
An Zhe: "..."
He was also wearing Lu Feng's coat, and in the coat pocket was Lu Feng's workbook and ballpoint pen.
Boss Xiao narrowed his eyes.
"Where were you when I was in the tent with the poet last night?" he asked. "Did you sleep with him?"
"No." An Zhe always felt that Boss Xiao was questioning him, and he replied in a low voice: "He didn't sleep."
Boss Xiao laughed "Hey": "How do you know he's not sleeping? You just slept with him. How is he? Tell me."
An Zhe knew that he couldn't tell anyone, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb: "What is Judgment Day?"
"Then do you know how the Judgment Act came about?" the poet asked him.
An Zhe: "I don't know."
The poet looked at Boss Xiao: "The old man must know."
Boss Xiao raised his eyebrows and said, "I know."
The poet asked: "What is your age?"
Boss Xiao did not answer, he said: "When I was young, everyone supported this bill."
The poet sat down side by side with An Zhe at the corner of the bed. His gray prison uniform was worn out in some places, his black half-long hair was simply tied up behind his head, his face was calm, and he spoke in a dignified manner Perhaps this is the usual tone of voice in the profession of poets: "The Inquisitor Act has been going on for nearly 100 years. I think the Northern Base is grateful for it. I don't know much about that. The old people at the base are too few."
Boss Xiao's interest seemed to have finally shifted from the question of how An Zhe slept. He played with the small parts of the doll he took out from his pocket with one hand, and said, "I also heard it when I was a child."
Poet: "You speak."
"After the southeast base was finished, everyone was very scared. At that time, the degree of mutation of the alien species was not as severe as it is now. People outside only need to go back to the base after a full-body inspection. There are no wounds or other abnormal places. There are soldiers everywhere in the base. , Once a mutation is found, kill it immediately." Boss Xiao said: "The ultrasonic dispersing device has not been invented yet, and bugs are flying around in the base, and the big things that are obviously mutated are killed by the soldiers. Insect traps are hung all over the base, and minors are not allowed to leave the base, so we form insect hunting teams and kill insects everywhere.”
The poet said: "The era of war and chaos."
"Basically," Boss Xiao said, "I was the captain of the insect hunting team when I was a child. It took more than ten years to have an ultrasonic disperser, and not a single insect could fly into the entire base."
Poet: "By then the Inquisitor's Act had been introduced."
"Yes," Boss Xiao said, "but the law was introduced not because of bugs, but because of a surveillance video. When a surveillance officer routinely checked the past video of the water tower, he saw something happening in the corner. The place was too dark. It’s not clear, so no one noticed it at the time. The moment the monitor saw the video, the surveillance officer went crazy with fright, and you couldn’t imagine that scene.”
An Zhe was aroused by Boss Xiao's narration, and he also listened attentively when he saw the poet.
I heard Boss Xiao continue: "He saw a person with a strange posture walking to the side of the circulating purification pool. Then, the person sat down, as if he had no bones. I heard the person who watched the video say that the person looked like a humanoid Leeches. Sitting down, he put his legs in the pool."
Poet: "Is he a heterogeneous species polluting the water with secretions?"
Boss Xiao smiled: "Hey, that's not going to scare me like that."
The poet raised his eyebrows.
"Then, that person's leg turned into a translucent gray thing, as if it exploded, and a large piece spread in the water, which is indescribable." Boss Xiao shook his head, and continued: "Then, that person The whole body also flowed into the pool, and the water level immediately rose by more than ten points. I heard people say that it was filled with white meat, and the water was part of the base's water circulation system."
"Then, it followed the water and flowed away from the water outlet. It was the drinking water of the base." Boss Xiao said: "The worse news is that this video was recorded more than 20 hours ago."
The poet frowned slightly, he seemed to be a little nauseated, and after rolling his Adam's apple a few times, he said: "The whole city is exposed."
"Yes." Boss Xiao said: "The lighthouse has given the research results. This is a soft-bodied aquatic species. It may be a way of reproduction if it spreads into the water. In short, there is a risk of infection in the whole base, and no one is safe. Tight Then, that bill came out in an emergency.”
Poet: "There is a saying that the first generation of judges and courts do not belong to the military, but the subordinate institutions of the lighthouse."
"That's right, after the invasion of the aquatic alien species, among the scientists in the lighthouse, there were those who studied the humanoid alien form and knew more about the characteristics of these things. They formed a trial court and organized everyone in the base to accept them one by one in ten days. Check. No one has a wound, but anyone can be infected, and there is no way to check, all rely on visual observation and intuitive judgment. Although you did nothing but drink saliva, but the Inquisition wants you to die, you have to Die." Boss Xiao sighed, and said, "Blood flowed like a river in those ten days, it is said that half of the entire base died."
"It's similar to the information I collected before." The poet said: "These ten days are the legendary Judgment Day."
"Just you people who play with pens, talk about those ten days as 'judgment day', talk about God and so on—" Boss Xiao frowned as he said.
The poet smiled: "On the last day, all people in the world will be judged before God, go to heaven, or go to hell. This is the Judgment Day."
"Who knows." Boss Xiao brushed the dust off his cuffs: "When the Virginia base heard about it, they yelled at our base's decision, sent a scientific research team to send machines that can identify different species with scientific evidence, and even used drones to go around. Leaflets against it. The result?"
The poet said in a low voice: "Less than a year later, the humanoid marine species invaded, and the Virginia base was fully infected and declared to have fallen."
"With those idiots in Virginia as a foil, the "Judger Act" was officially introduced. Any judge can shoot and kill people at any time. If the judge can't make a judgment, the judge will have the sole discretion to make a decision. Manslaughter will not be held responsible. The judge is God." Boss Xiao grinned: "It's a pity that God tends to go crazy. He has killed too many compatriots, so he can't stop. The scientists in charge of the trial at the lighthouse change from one crop to another, and three of them have gone crazy in ten years. , committed suicide two times, no one wanted to take over, and the military took over."
"People from the military have been stationed in the wild for many years, and they have seen more monsters. They are not bad at distinguishing different species, and their psychological quality is also strong. The speed of changing judges has finally changed from one insane in three years to one in ten years. Lu Feng just became a judge. The owner was under 20 years old, I think he is too young, and I bet that he won't last three years." Boss Xiao shrugged: "I lost a lot of money, and he is in his seventh year this year. Hubbard said The number of people he killed is several times that of the previous judge, and the number has doubled every year for the past three years, and everyone knows that he is not far from going crazy."
"Compared with the psychological pressure of the judge, it is hard to say who is more stressed." The poet leaned against the wall: "But since Colonel Lu is still in the mood to sleep with children, it seems that he is still far away from losing control. "
"No, that's not right." Just after he finished speaking, he frowned again, and quickly changed his words: "For a cold and heartless person like Colonel Lu, this is actually one of the signs of going crazy."
He approached An Zhe, with an expression similar to Boss Xiao's in his eyes: "How is he doing? Did it hurt you?"
An Zhe wrapped his clothes tightly and huddled in the corner, not wanting to talk to them.
thump.
There was a snap.
The atmosphere in the room was excited, and all three looked towards the source of the sound.
A colorful beetle crashes against the window.
He turned around and left, the lighthouse researcher quickly followed, the car of the court was parked outside the gate of the city defense station, the young judge ran over: "Colonel!"
Lu Yan: "You stay and assist the city defense station."
"Colonel, is the Inquisition called?"
Lu Yan glanced at the sparse crowds on the road: "Close the city gate and gather in District 5."
"Yes." The judge said: "Colonel, be careful."
Lu Yan didn't speak, the car door closed with a slam, the engine started, he slammed the steering wheel, the black car quickly turned around, and drove towards the dispersal center of District 1 like an arrow, followed closely by Howard's car and The heavy armor of the city defense post.
In the back seat, the researcher is holding a communicator and is also talking to someone. He is being questioned.
"On the way to the dispersal center," said the researcher. "We have to prepare for the worst."
"At present, it is suspected that the special frequency band used by the ultrasonic dispersing instrument to drive away arthropods and birds has attracted underground worms while playing a role. But there is no doubt that this is a premeditated attack."
"Yes, we are contacting the locations of the rest of the dispersing instruments."
At the same time, in the center of the city, the sound of the alarm tower suddenly sounded, and the continuous sharp and long sound was deafening. The sparse people on the street in the early morning changed their expressions drastically when they heard it. After looking at each other, they ran to the nearest building. Object - the meaning of continuous long beeping is "emergency refuge".
At the same time, the street broadcast started, and the soft mechanical female voice said: "Alarm, due to the failure of the ultrasonic dispersing device, insects, birds and worm monsters may appear in the city in the near future. Before confirming the troubleshooting, please close the doors and windows immediately and stop going out. Once you find something suspicious, please call the emergency communication immediately and contact the city defense station. The base military will do its best to protect your safety."
"Alarm, due to the failure of the ultrasonic dispersing device, insects, birds, and worm-like monsters may appear in the city in the near future..."
There was a continuous "bang" sound of closing windows from the residential buildings in all directions, and the staff and prisoners of the city defense station were quickly transferred to the nearest residential area.A steady stream of armored vehicles drove out from various stations of the base where the city defense was located, and scattered to various places on the road.
An Zhe, Boss Xiao, and the poet are in the same room, and the city defense station is overwhelmed by themselves. One of them committed the crime of incitement, the other committed the crime of illegally stealing information from the judge, and the other was charged with some strange crimes. The charges for the crimes-in short, there was no lethality, no soldiers supervised them, they just locked the door.
"The dispersal center remotely manages all dispersal devices in the outer city," the poet looked out the window. "In the wild air, even a small flying insect may infect humans. Safe, not even a fly can fly into the base. If something really happened to the dispersal center, then we have already exposed the whole city to the possibility of infection. For insects in the breeding season, human flesh and blood are the best breeding ground for eggs .”
An Zhe sat on the bare bed with his knees hugged, and he asked, "What will happen?"
The poet stretched out his hand and pinched the back of his neck: "Suppose a small bug laid eggs in your skin last night, and the bug's gene and human's gene would fuse. After three days at the latest, you will be a human body inside." A skin sac that contains hundreds of millions of worm eggs. Little worms fly out of your eyes, your airways, onto other people, and soon—”
Boss Xiao dissatisfied: "Don't scare the children."
The poet slowly closed his hands: "I'm serious."
An Zhe suddenly saw the alien whose stomach was cut open by Lu Feng in the supply station square that day. His abdominal cavity and respiratory tract were full of translucent worms.
He said: "Then what should I do?"
The poet shook his head.
"We can only pray that there is no major accident in the dispersal center, or that the dispersal instrument can be repaired soon after the accident, otherwise..." He sighed softly: "Otherwise, there will be an outbreak of infection in the whole base, or... a trial The day will come again."
An Zhe frowned and looked at the empty street outside the window.
But Boss Xiao asked, "Do you know Judgment Day?"
"I've heard a little bit," said the poet.
Boss Xiao sighed: "I thought that as long as I stayed in the base honestly, I could live to the end of my old age."
"The base has been safe for too long." The poet is still looking into the distance: "I always forget that safety is only temporary, and danger is eternal. Living is not what we deserve, living is a gift."
An Zhe couldn't understand much, and he didn't know how to ask questions.
He has only one question: "What is Judgment Day?"
Boss Xiao glanced at him: "I forgot to ask you. What's the matter with your clothes?"
An Zhe: "..."
He was also wearing Lu Feng's coat, and in the coat pocket was Lu Feng's workbook and ballpoint pen.
Boss Xiao narrowed his eyes.
"Where were you when I was in the tent with the poet last night?" he asked. "Did you sleep with him?"
"No." An Zhe always felt that Boss Xiao was questioning him, and he replied in a low voice: "He didn't sleep."
Boss Xiao laughed "Hey": "How do you know he's not sleeping? You just slept with him. How is he? Tell me."
An Zhe knew that he couldn't tell anyone, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb: "What is Judgment Day?"
"Then do you know how the Judgment Act came about?" the poet asked him.
An Zhe: "I don't know."
The poet looked at Boss Xiao: "The old man must know."
Boss Xiao raised his eyebrows and said, "I know."
The poet asked: "What is your age?"
Boss Xiao did not answer, he said: "When I was young, everyone supported this bill."
The poet sat down side by side with An Zhe at the corner of the bed. His gray prison uniform was worn out in some places, his black half-long hair was simply tied up behind his head, his face was calm, and he spoke in a dignified manner Perhaps this is the usual tone of voice in the profession of poets: "The Inquisitor Act has been going on for nearly 100 years. I think the Northern Base is grateful for it. I don't know much about that. The old people at the base are too few."
Boss Xiao's interest seemed to have finally shifted from the question of how An Zhe slept. He played with the small parts of the doll he took out from his pocket with one hand, and said, "I also heard it when I was a child."
Poet: "You speak."
"After the southeast base was finished, everyone was very scared. At that time, the degree of mutation of the alien species was not as severe as it is now. People outside only need to go back to the base after a full-body inspection. There are no wounds or other abnormal places. There are soldiers everywhere in the base. , Once a mutation is found, kill it immediately." Boss Xiao said: "The ultrasonic dispersing device has not been invented yet, and bugs are flying around in the base, and the big things that are obviously mutated are killed by the soldiers. Insect traps are hung all over the base, and minors are not allowed to leave the base, so we form insect hunting teams and kill insects everywhere.”
The poet said: "The era of war and chaos."
"Basically," Boss Xiao said, "I was the captain of the insect hunting team when I was a child. It took more than ten years to have an ultrasonic disperser, and not a single insect could fly into the entire base."
Poet: "By then the Inquisitor's Act had been introduced."
"Yes," Boss Xiao said, "but the law was introduced not because of bugs, but because of a surveillance video. When a surveillance officer routinely checked the past video of the water tower, he saw something happening in the corner. The place was too dark. It’s not clear, so no one noticed it at the time. The moment the monitor saw the video, the surveillance officer went crazy with fright, and you couldn’t imagine that scene.”
An Zhe was aroused by Boss Xiao's narration, and he also listened attentively when he saw the poet.
I heard Boss Xiao continue: "He saw a person with a strange posture walking to the side of the circulating purification pool. Then, the person sat down, as if he had no bones. I heard the person who watched the video say that the person looked like a humanoid Leeches. Sitting down, he put his legs in the pool."
Poet: "Is he a heterogeneous species polluting the water with secretions?"
Boss Xiao smiled: "Hey, that's not going to scare me like that."
The poet raised his eyebrows.
"Then, that person's leg turned into a translucent gray thing, as if it exploded, and a large piece spread in the water, which is indescribable." Boss Xiao shook his head, and continued: "Then, that person The whole body also flowed into the pool, and the water level immediately rose by more than ten points. I heard people say that it was filled with white meat, and the water was part of the base's water circulation system."
"Then, it followed the water and flowed away from the water outlet. It was the drinking water of the base." Boss Xiao said: "The worse news is that this video was recorded more than 20 hours ago."
The poet frowned slightly, he seemed to be a little nauseated, and after rolling his Adam's apple a few times, he said: "The whole city is exposed."
"Yes." Boss Xiao said: "The lighthouse has given the research results. This is a soft-bodied aquatic species. It may be a way of reproduction if it spreads into the water. In short, there is a risk of infection in the whole base, and no one is safe. Tight Then, that bill came out in an emergency.”
Poet: "There is a saying that the first generation of judges and courts do not belong to the military, but the subordinate institutions of the lighthouse."
"That's right, after the invasion of the aquatic alien species, among the scientists in the lighthouse, there were those who studied the humanoid alien form and knew more about the characteristics of these things. They formed a trial court and organized everyone in the base to accept them one by one in ten days. Check. No one has a wound, but anyone can be infected, and there is no way to check, all rely on visual observation and intuitive judgment. Although you did nothing but drink saliva, but the Inquisition wants you to die, you have to Die." Boss Xiao sighed, and said, "Blood flowed like a river in those ten days, it is said that half of the entire base died."
"It's similar to the information I collected before." The poet said: "These ten days are the legendary Judgment Day."
"Just you people who play with pens, talk about those ten days as 'judgment day', talk about God and so on—" Boss Xiao frowned as he said.
The poet smiled: "On the last day, all people in the world will be judged before God, go to heaven, or go to hell. This is the Judgment Day."
"Who knows." Boss Xiao brushed the dust off his cuffs: "When the Virginia base heard about it, they yelled at our base's decision, sent a scientific research team to send machines that can identify different species with scientific evidence, and even used drones to go around. Leaflets against it. The result?"
The poet said in a low voice: "Less than a year later, the humanoid marine species invaded, and the Virginia base was fully infected and declared to have fallen."
"With those idiots in Virginia as a foil, the "Judger Act" was officially introduced. Any judge can shoot and kill people at any time. If the judge can't make a judgment, the judge will have the sole discretion to make a decision. Manslaughter will not be held responsible. The judge is God." Boss Xiao grinned: "It's a pity that God tends to go crazy. He has killed too many compatriots, so he can't stop. The scientists in charge of the trial at the lighthouse change from one crop to another, and three of them have gone crazy in ten years. , committed suicide two times, no one wanted to take over, and the military took over."
"People from the military have been stationed in the wild for many years, and they have seen more monsters. They are not bad at distinguishing different species, and their psychological quality is also strong. The speed of changing judges has finally changed from one insane in three years to one in ten years. Lu Feng just became a judge. The owner was under 20 years old, I think he is too young, and I bet that he won't last three years." Boss Xiao shrugged: "I lost a lot of money, and he is in his seventh year this year. Hubbard said The number of people he killed is several times that of the previous judge, and the number has doubled every year for the past three years, and everyone knows that he is not far from going crazy."
"Compared with the psychological pressure of the judge, it is hard to say who is more stressed." The poet leaned against the wall: "But since Colonel Lu is still in the mood to sleep with children, it seems that he is still far away from losing control. "
"No, that's not right." Just after he finished speaking, he frowned again, and quickly changed his words: "For a cold and heartless person like Colonel Lu, this is actually one of the signs of going crazy."
He approached An Zhe, with an expression similar to Boss Xiao's in his eyes: "How is he doing? Did it hurt you?"
An Zhe wrapped his clothes tightly and huddled in the corner, not wanting to talk to them.
thump.
There was a snap.
The atmosphere in the room was excited, and all three looked towards the source of the sound.
A colorful beetle crashes against the window.
