global pollution

"really?"

Xia Ren habitually hugged Lily, who was already seven or eight years old, from Qin Yun's arms, trying to pinch her little hands, but found that the latter had grown taller unknowingly, sitting in her arms You can smell the fragrance of her hair directly.

It's so big, it's inappropriate to knead and pinch it. Xia Ren sighed regretfully, put Lily back, and waited for Liu Xiuxiu's answer.

"Zhang Xiang is a ghoul cub?"

Liu Xiuxiu asked.

Xia Ren nodded.

Liu Xiuxiu took a deep look, not caring about how he was sure, and said: "From the moment I heard Zhang Xiang say what kind of witch is called, I began to suspect that as far as I know, there are only a bunch of guys Knowing how to use them, the male members are called wizards, and the female members are called witches. They have abandoned all humanity, betrayed human beings, and surrendered themselves. The name of the organization is the Wizards Union!"

"wizard?"

Qin Yun said in surprise.

Her predecessor was a researcher in quantum mechanics. Although after becoming an infected body, she has experienced many things during the time with Xia Ren. She knows that the world is not that simple, and those horrible pollution products are randomly displayed in the world. In front of you, you can overthrow the existing scientific theories, but you still feel a little surprised when you suddenly hear the ignorant title of "wizard" centuries ago.

"Yes."

Liu Xiuxiu didn't know what bad memories came to mind, her face was gloomy, and she said: "Because there were no cases of ghouls found around Jupiter City before, so I ignored the possibility of them at first. The IQ of ghouls is not high. Low, on the contrary, they are smarter and wiser than most humans. The source of ghouls is still unclear, but they are undoubtedly an independent race, not simply polluted and distorted humans, long before the foundation was established , they live on this planet with humans.”

"Adult ghouls have the general appearance of humans, and many parts are similar to humans, such as walking upright and having clear facial features. Their skin is like rubber, with amazing toughness, and ordinary weapons can't do them any harm at all. Not even pistols of ordinary caliber, they have pointed claws and tusks, feet like hooves, protruding faces, and a certain resemblance to dogs..."

"and many more……"

Xia Ren interrupted him and asked: "Since you know so well, why didn't you remind me when you first met Zhang Xiang?"

Liu Xiuxiu waved her hand and said, "Wait until I finish, this is the appearance of an adult ghoul, but a baby ghoul is completely different. Ghouls will raise their own offspring, but some special offspring, they They will not be brought with you, but parasitized in human families, so that they can be brought up like ordinary people. These special cubs have the top appearance of human beings. At present, a more reliable guess is to reduce their chances of exposure. To integrate into society, they will work like ordinary people, go to work, marry a wife and have children, and they will not realize their true identity until their instincts are awakened after they are 30 years old."

"Ghouls often sign contracts with the Wizarding Union. The Foundation doesn't know the content of the contracts, but wizards and witches will help take care of these ghoul cubs that live in human families."

As Qin Yun listened, a terrible guess suddenly appeared in her heart: "Where did the original children of those families go?"

Chapter 2 The Truth About Pollution

Xia Ren thought of a bird called Rhododendron.

Cuckoo birds will lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, and push the rest of the eggs out of the nest and smash them, forcing the original owner of the nest to lay eggs again, and the hatching time of the newly laid eggs is definitely not as good as Little Rhododendron.

When the little cuckoo hatches, it will inherit the habit in its genes and push the other eggs out of the nest again, so that it can enjoy the nurturing of its foster relatives.

Zhang Xiang must be like this. He is not the biological son of Zhang Hong and his wife. Their real child may have already encountered an accident.

Sure enough, Liu Xiuxiu's next answer also verified his thoughts.

"Most baby ghouls are brought into human families by contracted wizards. They will quietly replace the original babies in the family, discard them, or sacrifice them. The foundation has not yet known Why do they frequently hold sacrificial ceremonies, perhaps just to be able to have more communication with the abyss. It is also reported that the human children who are taken away will be raised by ghouls and become ghouls when they grow up, but there is no Facts can prove that this news is true or false."

"And sometimes, wizards or witches don't do it themselves. They use human traffickers to sell ghoul cubs to families in need, and occasionally buy some human babies from human traffickers. I don't know what to do with them."

"Human traffickers..."

Xia Ren suddenly thought of something and looked at Liu Xiuxiu.

Liu Xiuxiu also nodded to him, and said, "I just thought that that Chen Qiwei might know more information."

"useless."

Xia Ren rubbed his temples, with a troubled expression on his face, and said, "Zhang Xiang called his companions before he died. The Seventh Witch must have known about his death. Maybe all clues will be cut off before tonight. But... …To be on the safe side, let’s go and have a look tomorrow.”

This was the closest he'd come to finishing a ghoul hunt, but it was a cub.

After this time, it will be even more difficult to meet another ghoul.This will again be a distant task.

It's just that ticket... I always feel that there is some conspiracy in the system, otherwise it would be too strange, just like canceling the leave note, before the time, I can't understand what it is for.

"By the way, do you know about the Dark Festival?"

"Dark festival?"

Liu Xiuxiu tilted her head with a puzzled expression, "I haven't heard of it. But I can check it for you. If it's related to ghouls, I should have this authority."

"Let's talk about this later."

Xia Ren didn't insist, but instead asked: "What's the matter with wizards and witches? I remember that only apostles are the only ones who can maintain their human form after being polluted? Could it be that the members of the Wizards Union are all apostles?"

That would be too scary.

"Xia Ren, I think you have misunderstood pollution."

Liu Xiuxiu said earnestly: "Not all human beings are bound to be distorted by pollution. If you think about it carefully, if pollution is a poison that can kill you immediately, then all investigators will become disposable consumables, and the Foundation will soon be distorted." cease to exist."

"But aren't you resistant to pollution..."

Speaking of this, Xia Ren suddenly stopped.

He faintly felt that something was wrong, but for a moment he couldn't remember what went wrong.

It's about the truth about pollution. Qin Yun raised his spirit when he heard this question.

Liu Xiuxiu lowered his head and thought for a while, as if he was thinking about his words. After a full minute, he decided to tell the secret: "Pollution is not something contagious like a virus. Although it sounds unbelievable, the fact is that In this way, at the beginning of the Foundation's establishment, one of the founders mentioned that pollution is knowledge,

It is beyond human comprehension, far beyond the computing power of the brain, knowledge! "

"Knowledge……"

Xia Ren chewed this word repeatedly in his heart, feeling that a door in his mind opened a gap, and light leaked out.

Liu Xiuxiu went on to say: "This is actually not difficult to understand, just like the early days of the establishment of the Supreme Alliance Government, astronomy gradually developed, and a large number of astronomers who firmly believed in the geocentric theory committed suicide in despair after learning that the earth was just a drop in the ocean. Human beings are very fragile. Once some knowledge beyond imagination is displayed in front of us, it will cause us to collapse. What's more, according to the founder, pollution actually represents the most original knowledge of the universe. I can only With a superficial understanding of this, as for why there are infected bodies and mutants, it is a more complicated process."

"Our investigators can be immune to pollution to some extent. The essence is not to fight pollution, but we can accept a part of pollution."

After listening in a daze, Xia Ren was still immersed in Liu Xiuxiu's words just now, unable to extricate himself.

Pollution is knowledge.

He seemed to understand something, but he didn't seem to understand anything.

The race of the ancients crossed the vast universe and descended from the blue star from an extremely distant place. They created the Shoggoths, and a part of the Shoggoths gave rise to the current earth creatures. Therefore, for human beings, the race of the ancients Can be regarded as the creator?

There is no way to understand, no way to look directly at the Creator.

Truly...God!

It will collapse when you see it, because you can't understand it, but what if human beings can understand it?

A bold idea popped into his mind.