Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

Just like Celeste said, some truths are better than not knowing, but now that she already knows, Fu Yunlan can't help but want to break the casserole and ask the end. Maybe it won't change anything, but at least it can Make him understand: "So... can you tell me about the memories you got from your ancestors? What I remember is intermittent, and most of them are memories of the two people's daily life. I still want to know something. Ins and outs."

Of course Celeste would not refuse. In order to emphasize to Fu Yunlan that he was not the same person before and after "rebirth", he specially used the third person when describing: "Thousands of years ago, my ancestors came to the earth , began to fulfill its duties as a 'guardian'. According to the usual practice, it hides itself, possesses humans, and observes the development of this civilization as humans. We are parasitic creatures, imitating the behavior of other races It is our nature, but human beings...maybe because of the opacity of thinking and low communication efficiency between each other, human beings have developed very complex emotions and emotions in addition to a particularly developed imagination, although it is in words and deeds The world is no different from human beings, but it has always been regarded as a freak and alien by the people around it. Until more than 100 years ago, it decided to start imitating and studying human emotions, trying to love another person as a human being. It is The first guardian who thought of doing this, maybe some things have changed since its generation. For the convenience of distinction, we will call it the 'first generation' for the time being."

Fu Yunlan asked in surprise: "If I understand correctly... In the thousands of years after coming to Earth, the guardians are all the same generation?"

"Yes, if there is no problem and we don't want to reproduce, we may not have a 'rebirth' for tens of thousands of years. After all, the longer the lifespan of my family, the stronger the ability. Like He Xiao, there are more than 2 Compared with him, my strength is like a baby." Celeste continued to explain to him, "The complexity of human emotions is beyond imagination, and the first generation of emotion experiments ended in failure. It abandoned itself. After the original body and identity, it was still stuck in it and couldn't extricate itself. It didn't know what was wrong with it, and thought it was an unexplainable strange disease, so it carried out a "restart". So the second generation was born, it has the first The entire memory of the failed emotion experiment of the first generation, but still wanted to continue the experiment, and chose a student who adored it as a target... Yes, the second generation is the one you remember. It is a newly born An individual, except for the knowledge inherited from its ancestors, learns everything around it like a blank sheet of paper. Perhaps it is for this reason that its way of thinking is more mature than that of the first generation that has lived for tens of thousands of years. close to humans."

"...So did he succeed?" Fu Yunlan remembered that the second generation said "love" to his "sample" later. This memory is very deep, probably because his "sample" continued in his later life I recall the excitement of that moment.

Celeste nodded, and continued with a somewhat depressed mood: "I only inherited its memory, not its emotion, but the hot and strong emotion of human beings can be felt even after the restart. The second It takes ten years to learn to love a human being, and it spends the next few decades happily with that human being, until the human being inevitably begins to age, the memory becomes blurred, and the physical function is getting worse. The second generation didn't want to watch his lover die, so he began to race against time to study the method of keeping him. This method is to use cloning to create a young body, and then transfer the memory of his lover to the new body. Ke` It is not difficult to bulge out the body, but the thoughts and memories of all carbon-based life forms are untouchable forbidden areas for us. We can only destroy them, but cannot transform them. At that time, He Xiao had already come to the earth, but even in With the help of He Xiao, the research has still not progressed."

Everything that Celeste said matched Fu Yunlan's memory. Fu Yunlan had roughly guessed what was going to happen next, but Celeste continued to say, with obvious sadness in his emotions: "That person finally found out about the ongoing experiment, and he persuaded the second generation to stop. Human beings are used to a short lifespan, and he can calmly face the reality that he is about to die of old age, and he does not want to extend his life through unnatural means .Second Generation was sad, but respected his wishes, and the experiment was terminated. He died shortly afterward of organ failure due to aging."

Fu Yunlan was also curious about where he came from and why he was abandoned by his biological parents, but since he was a little bit more sensible, the world has entered chaos, and there is no way to find out. Until today, he finally Knowing her life experience: "In other words, Fang Jingyu and I are the by-products of this experiment... Then why did you throw us away?"

"It's not 'throwing', it's just returned to human upbringing." Celeste said, "Maybe it's hard for you to understand this approach. For a parasitic race with no entity like us, the body is just a coat, memory It's the essence. I don't know why you suddenly remembered the memories that the second generation tried to instill in you, but at the time, the experiment was obviously a failure. Since there are no memories, only genetically identical clones are important to For the second generation, they are ordinary human beings who have nothing to do with it. In fact, according to the standard procedure, you should be destroyed. It was the second generation who moved the heart of compassion, thinking that although you were not born naturally, you are no different from ordinary human babies. It's different, so every time the experiment failed, he sent the cloned babies who couldn't remember anything to orphanages all over the world, hoping that you could live like ordinary humans. Fang Jingyu was one of the earlier batch, and you It's the last batch."

Maybe genes really affect their fate to some extent. Although their personalities are different, they all have the same intelligence, strength, perseverance, sense of responsibility and leadership as that "sample", and their sexuality is the same. like men.

"That's all I know. There are some things I still can't find the answer to. The human died shortly after the experiment was terminated, and I should have been born before the nuclear explosion in Merced, before his death. Twenty years have passed. I have recovered most of my memories, but I can't remember what happened in the past twenty years from his death to the second generation's "restart". I don't even have the impression of why I chose the body of Celeste as my container." Celeste said while holding his forehead, "This is very unusual, everything shows that I have closed my own memory --To be precise, it was the second generation before 'Rebirth' who deliberately made me after 'Rebirth' think that I was just a human being. Why did it do this, and why did He Xiao help it hide it from me? My head is about to explode, but I still can’t remember anything.”

Seeing Celeste frowning deeply, Fu Yunlan temporarily forgot about his distress, and regardless of whether it was appropriate to treat an emperor who actually ruled the world in this way, he hugged Celeste and patted him on the back Try to comfort: "If you can't remember it, don't think about it. Maybe the answer you are looking for is another embarrassing fact that it is better not to know than to know."

"Well, I don't want to." Celeste looked up at him and said, "And you, after knowing all the causes and consequences, do you feel better?"

Fu Yunlan also wanted to give him a reassuring answer, but in the end she chose to tell the truth: "I don't know... I think I need some time to accept the reality."

"Is this life experience difficult for you to accept?"

"No... I don't care whether I was cloned or how I got here, I just don't know how to treat this sudden extra life memory."

"Just take it as our fate from the previous life, like reincarnation or something, some human religions explain life and death in this way." Celeste grabbed Fu Yunlan's hand, looked into his eyes seriously Said, "The most important thing is that you are Fu Yunlan, and your life belongs to you from the beginning to the end. It is not the continuation of anyone, nor is it a substitute for anyone."

Fu Yunlan could only smile a bit reluctantly: "Yes."

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Regardless of whether he really looked away or what, in short, the long life of imprisonment has begun

With the Guardian's current level of technology, it is impossible to figure out what the Devourer did to him, so captivity is indeed the only way to prevent him from hurting Celeste or even himself.

And this captivity is not really captivity at all, he is free in the virtual world that can be faked, he can go wherever he wants, do whatever he wants, without any restrictions.

The system will monitor his physical condition, release him from the simulation cabin at the right time, and let him move around in a luxurious suite, but he cannot leave, and he has no chance to contact anyone—this is the only way to Let him realize the place where he is being imprisoned now. At other times, Fu Yunlan's life is simply impeccably comfortable.

Every time he comes out of the simulation cabin, there are always prepared delicacies in the room. He eats, showers, and goes to the toilet to the sound of beautiful music, and then sleeps on a big soft bed, or returns directly to the simulation cabin sleep.

If you want to sweat a little, there are also fitness equipment tailored for super soldiers in the room to prevent his muscles from atrophy due to lying in the simulation cabin all year round.