Chapter 100 Stars
The meteor hammer failed to take effect, and the mechanical arm fell silent again. Hearing the call, Little Red Riding Hood took an uneasy step and crossed the threshold of the villa, "Where are you, Mr. Flipper?"
"I'm here."
The two men were talking in the mist. Jin Huiying gritted her teeth and rushed out of the house towards the thick fog.
At the end of the fog is a two-meter-high black metal door with a turntable and hinges, similar to a submarine watertight door.
"Irrfan, who was eliminated first, and even Halle, did not die. They were transported away."
Li Sheng knocked on the metal door with his knuckles, his voice dull and hollow. He clenched his fist to reduce the range of the fog concealment technique, turned around and walked to the edge of the thick fog, looked at the villa, and said to the mechanical arm that stayed there: "And if Annie, Leonardo and the others hadn't messed around, even by the end of the reality show, there would be no No need to really die. Am I right? "
"." The narrator fell into silence and said nothing.
“Are you pretending to be cool?” Li Sheng curled his lips and took out a detonator, “This device can detonate the IED bombs buried in the villa at the same time, blowing up all the remaining houses into the sky. Even if With the current technological level of wasteland civilization, it will take a lot of effort to restore a villa with a 21st century aesthetic."
The radio vibrated slightly, and a calm narration came from it, ".What do you want? .”
"A small house of eighty square meters, and a gentle and good wife. The children can go to college smoothly and have a good job after graduation."
Hearing the narrator's question, Li Sheng subconsciously started singing, singing. Only then did he realize that the situation was wrong. He coughed a few times in embarrassment amid the confused expressions on Little Red Riding Hood and Jin Huiying's faces, and said seriously: "I only have two requests. One, tell me what is outside this sealed door.
< br>Two, let me see what your so-called new humans look like.”
Time passed by, and the atmosphere was as oppressive as an ice cellar. Finally, the robotic arm moved and stretched out of the villa holding the TV screen. A narration came from it, "There is only misfortune and misery outside the door. Once that door is opened, it means that you can never look back.
On the contrary, if you continue to stay in the villa, you can still live in peace and joy. Live an ordinary life.”
Li Sheng grinned, "Huh? Keeping us in captivity is what the show crew calls a 'mysterious gift'?"
Jin Huiying's heart moved slightly. The goal of this mission is just to abide by the rules of the game and survive until the end of the day. The game is over, now just follow what the narrator says and you will be able to successfully pass the level.
She intentionally tugged at the corner of Li Sheng's clothes that the camera could not capture, but the latter took two steps back, walked back to the watertight door, leaned against the door and said lightly: "I don't think there will be anything outside the door. It’s a thousand-meter-deep seabed with huge water pressure, and I don’t think the outside will be a desolate wasteland with excessive radiation and full of mutated creatures.
Just like I don’t think you are human.”
Li Sheng's tone was calm, not accusing the program crew of inhumane behavior, but more like describing a fact.
"." The narration was silent again.
“Don’t you want to say yes?”
Li Sheng smiled and turned to look at Little Red Riding Hood, “Do you still remember the background of this reality show?”
“ "Remember."
Little Red Riding Hood tilted her head and tried to remember, "[In 2077, the increasing depletion of oil resources led to the outbreak of war. Thousands of nuclear bombs shuttled through the atmosphere, planting artificial suns one after another. , dark clouds of radiation cover the sky and the sun, and mankind is heading for the end】
[A genius scientist emerged from nowhere, solved all problems except mutants, and brought the declining civilization of the earth back on track. He was regarded as the messiah and savior by all tribes and city-states in the wasteland. Order was re-established, the city was revitalized, starships were even built in the space base, and plans to colonize and explore outer space were implemented]
[The only problem is how to continue human civilization]
< br>[That is, Wasteland Dating Variety Live Reality Show]"
"Very complete, but unfortunately incorrect. Li Sheng corrected with a smile: "The last sentence is the broadcast system." "
"? ! "Little Red Riding Hood thought about it, her face was full of astonishment, and she said in astonishment: "The background sound of the radio took over the briefing? ”
"That's right, the purpose of setting it up like this is to make us misunderstand."
In the script task, only the briefing is absolutely true. Li Sheng said: "If you understand this clearly, you can get a quite subtle answer."
While Little Red Riding Hood was still thinking, Jin Huiying reacted and opened her eyes wide.
“According to conventional understanding, in order to continue human civilization, a wasteland romance reality show must be held to set a love example for young men and women in the wasteland, in order to increase the marriage rate and fertility rate.
But the above evidence has proven that old and new humans are completely different species. Calling old humans to film a love show for new humans is as absurd as trying to maintain the marriage rate by raising the divorce threshold.
Unless the meaning of this sentence is really just the literal meaning. We, the reality show contestants, are needed to continue [human civilization]”
He deliberately emphasized the last four words, as slow as Little Red Riding Hood and realized something, “Are we human civilization?” ! ”
“To be precise, we are pre-human civilization. "Li Sheng whistled and looked at the TV screen in the distance with a smile.
Finally,
Zila——
The screen lit up, and what appeared on it was no longer an advertisement, but the face of a cat girl.
It has a humanoid skull outline, larger and rounder eye sockets than humans, vertical green pupils, a pair of normal human ears, and a pair of animal ears protruding from the hair.
There is a layer of shallow gray hair on the surface of the cheek, the mouth is three-petal shaped, and there are beards on both sides.
Compared with the beast-eared girls in real earth literary and artistic works (such as "Wolf and Spice", "Chocolate and Vanilla", etc.), the degree of animalization has increased slightly, but it has not caused the uncanny valley. effect.
The cat girl was wearing a suit and a bow tie, and beside her there were some demi-humans with the characteristics of cats and dogs, as if they were busy in a studio.
Some of them had weak fluorescence on their bodies, and they had obviously just drank Quantum Coke recently.
"Haha, it turns out that this is what the new humans mean."
Li Sheng smiled and nodded, "Then we old humans."
The cat girl in the suit said calmly: " You are all pure human beings from the previous era who were preserved in cryogenic institutions before the nuclear war."
In the 1960s on the real earth, the United States published a book called "The Prospect of Immortality." "The book triggered the craze of human cryopreservation.
Some deceased people who have ordered a freezing package will be sent to a freezing facility immediately after death. First, the blood and water in the human body are replaced with a cryoprotectant, and then the protective agent is converted into a solid glassy substance to prevent ice crystals from damaging cells. Finally, the human body is moved into a cryogenic incubator and liquid nitrogen is added regularly. Long-term preservation.
Those who book the package just want to wait until fifty, one hundred, or two hundred years later, when technology is highly developed, and someone will resurrect them.
Not only are the dead who are dying soon, but there are also rich people who are suffering from diseases, and some powerful people who are not suffering from disasters and diseases, who simply feel that they have had enough fun in the real world and want to "travel" to the future world to continue enjoying it.
But, at least in the contemporary time of the real earth, this technology is far from reaching a mature level. It cannot even thaw a quick-frozen living person immediately, let alone an old person who has been frozen for fifty years. Popsicles.
Not to mention the derived social problems - now ordinary people take a passbook from 80 years ago to the bank to collect sky-high interest, and the banks are too lazy to pay attention.
How can we expect those refrigeration institutions to have business ethics as strong as steel and maintain this business for a hundred or two hundred years, during which time they will take good care of all popsicles and frozen meats.
Everything is possible in the world of the script. Li Sheng stopped trying to reason and crossed his hands in front of him, "There are no purebred people in the outside world anymore?"
"Wild purebred humans "
The cat girl in the suit said: "Before the nuclear war, it was popular in human society to perform brain modification surgery on their pets to improve their IQ.
After the nuclear war, The vast majority of pure-bred humans who survived were also mutated into zombies or bloodthirsty mutants who like to eat human flesh under the influence of radiation dust.
On the contrary, smaller cats and dogs, with better tolerance to radiation, survived, and with the help of a genius human scientist, they genetically merged with humans to become sub-humans and took over the baton of civilization. "The cat and dog version of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"?
Li Sheng raised his eyebrows and said: "What is the name of that genius scientist? Where are you now? Can you give us a referral? "
"Her name is Lynn. According to the map of old human civilization, she is now in a palace in the Himalayas. As for introductions, I’m sorry that I can’t do that at the moment. ”
Lynn, Lynn?
Li Sheng wrote down the name, nodded and said: "Cats and dogs, as human pets, naturally have the priority inheritance rights of civilization after becoming sub-humans.
For some reason, you decided to start from before the nuclear war. In the freezing facility, former humans who have been frozen for tens or hundreds of years are thawed and resurrected.
This kind of resurrection is not just to build a zoo and keep humans in captivity, but to really let the former humans live. Humanity repopulates and establishes human civilization.
The so-called "Wasteland Romance Reality Show" is also part of the review process - you have to find the most beautiful, smartest, and to some extent the most rational and cold-hearted. A man and a woman. "
The rules of romance are destined to be full of intrigue, betrayal, and frame-up. If you want to survive, you can be kind and not stupid.
"You're right."
The cat girl in the suit said in a strange tone, "At the beginning of the show, the program team predicted that the probability that you would pass the level was less than 10%. I didn't expect that you would survive to the end. "
"Haha, there is no way. After all, I am such a treasured boy with rich connotations. During the prenatal education, I was proficient in playing music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and songs. I studied literature at the age of three, science at the age of five, and graduated with a doctorate at the age of ten. I founded a multinational company and successfully went public at the age of 16. As for my daily life. Warning for more pictures! Warning for more pictures!
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Thanks to the reminder from my friends in the comment area, the original answer has been modified. People nowadays are too violent and hateful to others.
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Many netizens in the comment area were sour and questioning, thinking I was bragging. It can only be said that all unfairness in the world is due to the lack of ability of the parties involved. There are too many acquaintances in the circle, and the interests are related, so I have hidden them. "
After saying a long string of words, the cat girl in the suit opened her mouth and hesitated to speak. Little Red Riding Hood and Jin Huiying were also dumbfounded - I don’t know what content platform they thought this was on,
Is this the Internet influencer Kol who has millions of followers?
"Ahem."
The cat girl in the suit coughed twice to cover up her embarrassment, and said slowly: "As new humans, we have ended the era of struggling for survival and have initially restored the wasteland ecological environment. But we do not We plan to stay on the earth for a long time, but to take a spaceship and advance towards the stars and the sea, to explore and conquer.
At the same time, we will give mankind, this companion and civilization precursor race that has been with us for thousands of years, the first. A second chance.
If you choose to stay in this villa, you will enjoy the meticulous care of the automated robotic arm, and you will no longer have to worry about eating, drinking and having fun in your life.
And if you open the door, You will be exiled to the real wilderness and build human civilization from scratch without any help.”
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Li Sheng was silent for a moment and said with a smile: "Humanity in the past destroyed the ecological environment of the Earth's mother planet in the nuclear war, and also destroyed the proud crystallization of civilization. Can we do it again?" The opportunity is already not easy, what more can I ask for?
As for my choice"
He raised his palm, clasped it on the turntable of the watertight door, turned his head and looked at it with a smile. The cat girl in the suit said, "The next time the old and new humans meet again, maybe it will be in the starry sky a thousand years from now."
The cat girl took a deep breath, ".I wish you good luck."
"I also wish you good luck."
As the communication was interrupted and the TV screen fell into darkness, Li Sheng, Little Red Riding Hood, and Jin Huiying turned the turntable and worked together to push open the heavy door.
Huh——
Strong winds blew, and dust filled the open wilderness. Spaceships and space stations passed by in the extremely distant blue sky, and three people stood under the scorching sun. Like an outcast abandoned by the world.
Li Sheng leaned down and gently brushed the green leaves of a wild grass with his palm.
Fortunately, there is still hope.
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"Dr. Lynn,"
On the other side of the world, in a mountain fortress in the Himalayas, a cat girl in a suit is communicating to a person through remote video. A female human scientist in a wheelchair reported, "The three former humans in Vault 3 passed the test first and chose to leave the shelter and go to the wilderness to survive."
"So fast?"
The female scientist named Lin En raised her eyebrows slightly, "Where are the other shelters?"
The cat girl replied: "The reality show selection is still going on."
"I understand, don't bother. They continued to advance the plan. "
Lin turned off the communication video without comment, and sent an electrical signal through the helmet covered with electrode patches on his head, controlling the anti-gravity wheelchair to levitate and float to the destination. By the window.
In the Himalayas, you can more clearly see the spectacular scene of tens of millions of ships erupting in blue propulsion flames and sailing away from the earth.
"Master,"
In the bunker, a mechanical arm of the same style as the villa but obviously more advanced asked hesitantly, "Can the plan really succeed?"
Lin glanced at The AI program in the eye robotic arm was written by her herself. There is absolutely no risk of betrayal and she can tell the most intimate secrets to it.
After arriving in this world, Lin En spent decades guiding and controlling four billion new humans, letting them collectively board a spaceship, leave the earth, and head towards the sea of stars.
This is not entirely out of romanticism, but more to confirm one of Linn's conjectures - the script world created by Killing Fields is not a complete universe, but some kind of virtual world with physical edges. .
The collective flight of four billion new humans may trigger the emergency mechanism of the killing field. At that time, will it be destruction, retrogression, or let it go and further expand the universe as new humanity advances?
“The plan will succeed, and the plan must succeed.”
Lynn’s face was expressionless, with a strange light reflecting on the lenses of his glasses, and he sighed softly: “Only by mastering the secret behind the killing scene, Only then can we achieve that goal."
The robotic arm said cautiously: "Become the supreme step by step?"
"Shit!" Lin En rolled his eyes, "This is a moment of healing! I don’t want to sit in a wheelchair either! Gou Ri’s killing field, Gou Ri’s toy factory, this setting is just like the characters in the anime, forcing me to collapse in a wheelchair.
Make a crutch, but the crutch breaks for no reason.
Implanting a mechanical prosthesis, the prosthetic system collapsed.
Even if a Gundam is built, as soon as I sit in it, the legs of the Gundam will be immediately scrapped and paralyzed on the spot.
Shazhang, Aqili, don’t let me find out your entity. When I find you, I must pull off your hood and slap you in the face, *******”
The fragrance of Linn's breath echoed in the bunker
(End of this chapter)