Chapter 716 After the Collapse of Civilization
After the collapse of civilization, human beings became beasts wearing armor and holding sharp weapons. The old order disappeared. Covered by the shell of technology and wisdom, human beings returned to the era of biting each other - the human civilization on the planet Zomu. Such a step backwards to a state like tribal melee. Now the planet is divided by thousands of city-states, warlords, independent kingdoms, plundering legions and governments in exile. It took them six thousand years to go from the Bronze Age to the Nano Age. But it only took sixty years to return to this state of disintegration, and visually this time, human civilization could never stand up again.
Hao Ren found that the area he was in now was located in the northern hemisphere of the planet. It was one of the important areas where the world war first broke out. The nanomachine swarm out-of-control incident occurred only a few hundred kilometers away from here. Now there is only The remaining ruins are called "Grey River". How the nanomachine swarm disaster was stopped at that time is no longer known, but the wounds left by those terrifying machines can still be seen occasionally in the wilderness in this area: when Hao Ren came by car before, he saw that the ground in the wilderness was covered with dirt. The corrosion-like concave and convex marks and weird crystal pits are the masterpieces of the nanomachines.
That's not a wilderness, that's a melted city.
At the beginning of the war, human beings were divided into several relatively clear camps to attack each other. The evolved people gathered together to form the New Human Legion, and the natural people were divided into several large countries. However, as the war continued, the camps continued to split and reorganize, and the order became completely unable to be maintained. It became a chaotic mess. Nowadays, the second-generation evolvers have established a large number of legions and city-states. The extremist natural people are also barely maintaining their political power on the ruins of the old country. Sandwiched between them are the more moderate natural people and a small number of first-generation evolvers. Most of these humans are mercenaries and Free Corps. The civilian organization in the true sense has disappeared ten years ago. Today's civilians are just ancillary products of the Grand Legion, and - they are soldiers when they hold weapons.
Hao Ren also checked some branch entries of natural persons and found that natural persons are divided into many categories. Because biochemical plug-ins are too convenient, and the physical disadvantages of pure-blooded natural people are too obvious, many "natural people" actually have a small amount of biochemical plug-ins implanted. The only difference between them and "evolvers" is that they will never do anything to themselves. It starts with the brain nerves, and this "brain purity" is the only dividing line between natural people and evolved people today. Depending on the degree of self-transformation, natural people are divided into a large number of branches such as the improvement faction, the pure-blood faction, the fusion faction, and the neutral faction, but they still belong to the same camp.
People like Hao Ren, who can't detect any biochemical plug-in reaction in their bodies, are regarded as the most extreme pure-bloods among natural people.
"It's such a mess..." Hao Ren shook his head. The information in front of him made him dizzy. "Natural people, evolutionists, world wars, and nano disasters... it seems that the man-made disaster is more likely to be involved."
"But the influence of the 'Guardians' cannot be ruled out," the data terminal said in his mind. "There is no record of the underground tentacles, so the possibility of the eldest son is unlikely, considering that most incidents are problems within human society. As a result of the chain reaction, this machine tends to have a brain monster lurking on this planet."
Hao Ren pinched his chin and pondered: "Will he be a moderate like the giant...or a completely mutated lunatic?"
"It's possible, even sober giants may attack mortal races. After all, the pain of losing their mother will make them lose their judgment," the data terminal cautiously advised, "Because we are not sure of the mental state of this guardian, this machine It is recommended not to act in a high-profile manner for the time being. After determining the coordinates of this planet, we first set up some defensive forts and the like in orbit, and then force the lurking enemies out and try to kill or subdue them instantly. What do you think?"
The data terminal made suggestions based on past experience. Considering what happened in Horleta before, these countermeasures were normal. However, Hao Ren always felt that what happened on this planet should be more complicated than that, and there was no definite evidence. , but the sixth sense is reminding myself.
He thought for a while and entered a new set of keywords in the search bar: creator god, goddess, origin of life, religious legend.
A lot of messy information was quickly refreshed, and Hao Ren discovered that these keywords pointed to things before the war - after the world order was destroyed, no one cared about the ancient religious system anymore, and the emerging religions also They are all extremist organizations with fantastic ideas. Phrases like "the origin of life" are things that humans on this planet today have no time to consider.
"...There are religious stories about the origin of life, and there are many entries that are consistent with the goddess and the theory of sowing life." Hao Ren frowned, "Based on these things, it is almost certain that the ecosystem here was created by the goddess! And until the war Before, these religions were still circulating!”
"Before the war? Sixty-five years ago?" The voice from the data terminal sounded surprised, "This planet escaped the ecological extinction ten thousand years ago?"
Religious stories similar to the goddess of creation are spread, which means that the ecosystem of this planet has the blood of the goddess, and having the blood of the goddess means that after the God-killing incident, the crazy guardians here will regard it as venting their anger. place. Yet this planet was still thriving until sixty-five years ago... Did the Guardians miss this place? !
"It is also possible that he survived the first wave of attacks like Horleta." Hao Ren shook his head and turned off the computer after realizing that he could no longer find any more information. "But in any case, since this planet is a goddess What has been sown... must have its firstborn buried beneath the ground!”
The tone of the data terminal rose: "So the next step is to find the whereabouts of the tentacle monster?"
"You sound happy?"
"This machine is in a bad mood and urgently needs to explode something," the data terminal yelled. "It's so suffocating in this body!"
"To be honest, isn't there any adaptation at all?" Hao Ren turned around and came to the bed, bending down to check the current state of the data terminal's body, but the latter still looked like an ordinary girl. Corpse, "Is it so difficult to change your perception mode and adapt to the five human senses?"
"It's easy for you to say that," the data terminal said, still so unconvincing that it was blinded by its pitiful body. "Put your brain into the stomach of a slime and let the computer get used to it." ?”
Hao Ren thought about it and felt that although he couldn't do it, there might be someone in his family who could: Nangong Wuyue and Elsa transformed into slimes in order to let Elizabeth play on the trampoline...
He shook his head to throw away this unreliable association, casually arranged the hair on the forehead of the blonde girl, and muttered as he fiddled with it: "Then again, your appearance now is much more eye-catching than before, you are quite beautiful. Girl……"
The data terminal suddenly exclaimed in his mind: "What are you going to do! This machine reminds you that this... this body belongs to someone else, do you understand that the dead are the most important! And the soul of this body is essentially a human being." PDA, if you want to make a move, wait until this unit breaks away..."
Hao Ren really wanted to slap him down: "Can you fucking think logically for once?! I'll wipe your face!"
The data terminal finally shut up, and Hao Ren took out a tissue from his pocket and carefully washed the blonde girl's dirty face and blood-stained hair. He didn't know how the girl died tragically, let alone how to classify the strange situation in front of him, but meeting him was fate. At least while the data terminal temporarily occupied this body, he had to take good care of her. Auxiliary body.
"But there is a problem, the body will rot," the data terminal sensed Hao Ren's thoughts and spoke again, "If this situation continues, your life will become more and more heavy-handed in the next few days, and other people will treat you badly. The evaluation will rise from a sad necrophiliac to a perverted necrophiliac, and finally evolve into a pure pervert..."
Hao Ren no longer had the energy to argue with this guy, so he just responded casually: "Didn't Nolan say he would send a 'doctor' over? I guess he will help embalm the body. And you should think about it when you say this." My own situation: You are the owner of this body now, who do you think will be more harsh in the next few days?"
"It doesn't matter to me. I am a PDA. My world view is different from yours. Why don't you bite me?"
Hao Ren: "..."
No matter what, this is definitely the weirdest situation he has faced since he joined the company, bar none.