abyss rose

Chapter 66

"The abyss... [-] meters deep..."

Chai Yuening repeated Chu Ci's words unconsciously, and she suddenly remembered something.

In 2155, geological prospectors in the old world discovered traces of life at a depth of nearly [-] meters.This kind of life is called black vine. Human beings bring it to the ground, and it brings destruction to the world.

Could the abyss that the old man spoke of be the place where humans discovered the black vines?What kind of flower bloomed in that place?What kind of connection does that flower have with Chu Ci?

Chai Yuening couldn't help asking: "What did you remember?"

Chu Ci frowned, his eyes drifted a little, trying to recall something, but in the end he only clenched his fists with a disappointed expression, and shook his head silently.

"Don't think about it if you can't remember it, we will find the answer." Chai Yuening said, went to the bathroom to get a dry towel, went to sit beside Chu Ci, and wiped her wet long hair.

It doesn't matter to her whether Chu Ci can't remember anything, or whether she clearly remembers something but refuses to speak.

She just wants to be with her and do what she can for her.

The silence lasted for a long time, and it was Chu Ci who finally broke the silence.

At that time, the lights in the bedroom were turned off, and they lay beside each other, feeling each other's gentle breathing.

Before falling into the dream, Chu Ci said softly: "I didn't hide anything from you, this time it's true, my memories before the age of 16 are very messy and fuzzy, they are scattered fragments, appearing in my memory bit by bit In front of my eyes, whichever piece I want to grasp, it will drift away...I, it is my past, but I can't put it together..."

Chai Yuening took a deep breath, turned her head slightly, and looked into Chu Ci's eyes in the dark night.

"What the hell am I?" Chu Ci's words were blank.

Chai Yuening faintly felt that there was a bit of self-blame in this daze.

What is she blaming herself for?

Blaming herself for the past that she couldn't choose, blaming herself for a future that she can't change or may step into destruction?

Even if everything is true as the crazy old man said, all disasters in this world come from the abyss, and her unique existence is indeed inseparable from the abyss, she is just a carrier that is forced to bear everything.

Human beings chose her, the abyss chose her, she had no choice.

This world has never been better for Chu Ci. People taught her to take responsibility, told her to be responsible, and after failure, they wished to attribute all the pain to her. This is unavoidable for a girl who has to face all this before she can grow up. Too cruel.

Chai Yuening was silent for a long time.

She wanted to tell Chu Ci not to think about those anymore.

In fact, she still had some comforting words, but each one was too clumsy for her to speak.

She was afraid that she would not be able to empathize with her, and she was afraid that words that were too weak would make people who already felt lonely even more believe that no one in this world really understood herself.

She only stretched out one hand, and the fingers of the explorer intertwined with it in the darkness.

She asked Chu Ci: "Do you care?"

Chu Ci didn't answer, he seemed to be hesitating, or maybe he was afraid of something.

Chai Yuening thought for a while, then said softly: "I don't care."

No matter what Chu Ci is, she doesn't care.

A soft reply was the thinnest invisible warm current in this cold night.

When the voice fell, the person beside her suddenly approached her.

Chu Ci hugged her, and silently clinged to her with his human body.

The warm breath patted Chai Yuening's shoulders and neck slowly and lightly. She lowered her eyelashes unconsciously, and met those bright eyes, just like she was asking silently last time.

At that moment, she couldn't stop her heart beating faster, and wanted to respond, but she didn't know how to respond.

As time passed, the breathing of the girl lying on her shoulder became more and more gradual, and she had obviously fallen asleep.

She looked at her sleeping face, so quiet, so well-behaved, like a little girl who hasn't grown up yet, even if people know that this body is far stronger than human beings, they still can't help but want to put it on Hold and protect in the palm of your hand.

But Chu Ci is not a little girl, nor is she capable of protecting Chu Ci.

The world is collapsing at an accelerating rate, and humans are dying.Whether they are selfish or selfless, every cry they make, every resistance they make, seems to want to catch the last ray of light at dusk, and to resist the coming night.

But in fact, they have already been in the eternal night, and the dawn is far away that they can't see, maybe they can't reach.

If no way out can be found, when the last fire is extinguished, mankind will fall into darkness forever.

Can she stay with her forever?

Maybe, when the human race dies, she will cease to exist, but Chu Ci is special, and Chu Ci will definitely be able to live well.

All she can do is to hold that thin hand tightly, and walk with her a few more steps before human beings die, before she dies.

Thinking like this, Chai Yuening stretched out her hand to gently smooth the broken hair from Chu Ci's temples behind her ears, and closed her eyes with a silent sigh.

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The military of the base wanted to get in touch with the base in the foggy area as soon as possible, and several times expressed their desire to leave for the base in the foggy area as soon as possible, but Chai Yuening was careful.

First of all, she and Chu Ci came back here not only to deliver news to humans inside and outside the fog zone, but also to investigate some old events and find the truth that was silently hidden back then.

Secondly, before Floating Void City successfully implements inhibitors, changes the rules of base survival, and promises to everyone that they will no longer easily kill infected people, she cannot expose the existence of the fog zone base.

Floating Void City is not a base in a foggy area. The population here is too large, and it is not easy to fully implement inhibitors. Moreover, inhibitors can only inhibit and delay the complete mutation of the body, and cannot treat mutants.

What if, after the inhibitor has been implemented for a period of time, there are several incidents of mutants going crazy and hurting people in the base, and people who have never been infected start to feel insecure, thinking that such an approach is tantamount to keeping monsters in the base, so they begin to resist the inhibitor , Resist the existence of aliens, and the fog zone base is likely to be in danger.

Chai Yuening knows that she shouldn't speculate on others with the worst malice, but she has seen countless malice with her own eyes, and she can't completely ignore these bad results.

She is waiting, the initiative is in her hands, and the military can only wait patiently together.

Ten days after their arrival, the institute released a broadcast.

With the help of inhibitors, an infected person managed to retain the human will.

After half a month of real-time monitoring, the degree of mutation of the infected person has been fluctuating around 20.00%. Although some irreversible changes have taken place in the body, the emotional state is very stable.

He was the first infected person not to be killed immediately in the past twenty years.

Humans seem to have finally found a way to coexist with ecology.

But then, the research institute disclosed the true effect of the inhibitor. It can only temporarily suppress the occurrence of mutations. It is like an unstable pause button. When pressed, it will take effect for a short time, and the effective period is not fixed. The suspension may end at any time, and the mutation may continue at any time.

The Institute did not hide all this, because paper cannot cover fire, and deceiving them again will completely lose their credibility.

In any case, the base and the research institute agree that this is a good start, and as long as they find the right direction, the base will definitely be able to develop a real "stop button".

Soon, they released the infected person back home, and sent the research material to a distant dungeon base.

This should be welcome news, and it was initially believed to be so.

After the inhibitor appeared, the number of infected people who were not killed in the base gradually increased, from one case to a dozen, and finally hundreds or thousands.

Although the number of infected people is still very small, one or two strange figures can be seen occasionally in the streets and alleys.

The weirdness of these people destined them to be a very small minority who have no right to speak in the base.

Chai Yuening and Chu Ci couldn't leave the residence provided by the military at will, but Ye Qing would come here to see them from time to time, and every time he came, he would mention some outside things.

"The implementation of inhibitors is not optimistic." Ye Qing said, "People in the base privately call this kind of infected personnel who have partially mutated as 'heterogeneous'. .These people survived, but their lives are gradually distorted. Wherever they go, they will be treated differently, they cannot find a job, and they may even be alienated by their relatives and friends."

Everything went as Chai Yuening expected, and voices of opposition gradually appeared in the crowd.

Most people think that they don't need to go to the ground, and that under the protection of the base, alien beasts from outside will never be able to enter. They should be absolutely safe, but now the existence of these alien species makes some people feel that danger is imminent.

There are other voices in the base, but extreme voices are often more likely to gain attention and follow than moderate and neutral voices.

Soon, this kind of voice gradually became louder, and it didn't take much time to settle down, it just exploded overnight.

Just like when they shouted slogans and wanted to destroy sample A0027, under the mighty momentum, the infected people were isolated and helpless, and they only dared to shrink back at home, listening to the harsh scolding outside the window.

Someone committed suicide by jumping from the top floor of more than [-] floors.

The passing of life is only a moment. Before he died, he left a suicide note, and even shouted on the top floor-infected people are also human beings, we are alive, we are innocent!

However, the death of an infected person can only spark a short-term discussion.

In order to survive, human beings have given up more than a dozen outer cities and more than 200 million people of the same kind.

Everyone surviving in the main city now regards the death population data in the base as an ordinary number that beats every day.

The cry of an infected person with his life is insignificant at all, but within three or two days, it has been completely forgotten.

People's opposition to inhibitors is rising like a wave. Shi Wenlin's research to protect humans in the foggy area almost relegates people to mud outside the foggy area.

Sometimes Chai Yuening can't help but feel that human beings are really hopeless, but when she thinks of those who know that the road ahead is full of despair and never choose to give up hope, she feels that human beings should be immortal.

She thought, she is contradictory, human existence is also contradictory.

She asked Ye Qing, what does the military think, what does the research institute think?

Ye Qing smiled and said to her: "The interests of the individual and the whole seem to have always been in conflict, but since ancient times, they have always coexisted and coexisted."

"The fate of human beings is the pile of numbers that are always decreasing. The crying of babies can't catch up with the speed of its disappearance... If there is a choice, who would like to stop killing with killing?" Ye Qing said, unable to help but sigh He said, "Before a safe fusion method can be found, the base must fully implement the inhibitors from the fog area. The base has even estimated the price it will pay for doing so."

"What's the price?"

"Who knows?" Ye Qing said, "Anyway, the doctor has a premonition, and she said something will happen...but she believes that the base will survive."

Chai Yuening got up and poured her a glass of warm water.

Ye Qing took the water glass and thanked him: "I didn't come here this time to talk about that."

Chai Yuening: "Have you found anyone on that list?"

Ye Qing smiled: "I found two, but I couldn't bring them in, and I didn't ask anything. But when I was looking for past materials, I saw an unpublished waste in an old computer that was discarded by the newspaper office. manuscript, I checked the author of that scrapped manuscript, and found that he was sentenced to life/life/prison/imprisonment shortly after finishing that manuscript.”

"What did he write?"

"He made an unscientific guess about the reason for the destruction of the old world. The whole article is written in a fantasy style. People in the old world plucked the only flower in the abyss and offended the ancient gods who were sleeping deep in the ground. The deterioration of the ground ecology is the punishment of the ancient gods on human beings, and perhaps only by returning the flower can the anger of the ancient gods be appeased." Ye Qing said, "The base will not allow such remarks."

Chai Yuening: "It's just a waste manuscript."

Ye Qing: "Yes, but the base is very concerned. Even though the author said at the end that this is just a short fantasy novel in prose style, he was still arrested and sent to prison."

Chai Yuening subconsciously glanced at the bedroom.

She didn't really want Chu Ci to hear such nonsense, but at this moment Chu Ci was standing at the door of the bedroom, quietly looking at her and Ye Qing outside the room.

Chu Ci: "Where is the author?"

Ye Qing: "Dead, I saw his relics at his daughter's house. In the relics box, there is a work notebook."

Chu Ci: "Work notes?"

Ye Qing: "Senior Zhang Hanqing's work notes."

As she spoke, she took out a crumpled notebook with a sky blue shell from her backpack.

It looks very old, as if there are many unknown and uncared pasts.

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The author has something to say:

I have the ending syndrome. I am always afraid that I will not be able to write well, and I am afraid that the ending in my heart will not meet everyone's expectations, so I dare not write in various ways, but I have to write anyway. I should adjust it. There will be an update tomorrow, and there must be.Set a flag, and unless this month's aunt attacks me, the daily update will be over!The original song for this article is being worked on, it may not be in time for the end date, but there will be!