Scarlet Dawn [Apocalypse]

The next day, the Major General's apartment, study.

From time to time, the rustling sound of the pen tip across the paper was heard, and the pages of the book were turned. Silveson sat in the high-backed chair behind the desk, with his elbows on the armrest, and rested his chin on one hand, happily admiring the work on the sofa that focused on cracking the code. Bai Yi.

The weather simulation system inside the hive produced a snowfall yesterday evening. At this moment, the outdoor temperature is close to minus [-] degrees. The cold sunlight in winter is projected through the spotless glass, casting a layer of bright light spots on Bai Yi's body .

Under the control of the thermostat, the apartment has always maintained a comfortable constant temperature. Bai Yi only wore a thin low-necked T-shirt and slacks, and sat cross-legged on the sofa with bare feet.

The several-inch-thick "Bible" was spread out on his legs. The fingers holding the pen holder were slender and well-proportioned, with round and beautiful phalanges, and his joints were slightly white due to the grip. He lowered his head slightly, and his soft black hair covered his eyebrows and eyes, looking somewhat This kind of peaceful and comfortable temperament, completely different from when he was killing.

Finally, as the tip of the pen left the paper and the last layer of code was unlocked, Bai Yi put down the pen, moved his wrist and let out a long sigh of relief. He seemed to relax. He looked up at Silvison who was waiting beside him, " He said that man's greatest enemy will never be man himself."

With the pad of his index finger lightly tracing the outline of the lower lip, Silvison pondered for a moment and asked, "Is there anything else?"

"Death is rebirth." Bai Yi replied.

Silvison chuckled and did not express his opinion, but asked, "What is your understanding of these two sentences?"

"Although he is my father, our thinking is very different, so my understanding may not be correct." Silvison signaled that it doesn't matter, Bai Yi simply organized the language, took a breath, and said, "I think Does the first sentence imply that the enemy of the alliance is not the 'innovators' but the vampires, or on a larger scale, the vampires are the common enemy of the alliance and the 'innovators'?"

This is an extremely bold and even very unreasonable guess, so it ends with a question.

As we all know, the cooperation between the alliance and the blood race started from the genetic plan, and the two have reached a cooperative relationship based on interests. It has been more than 450 years, so there should be no possibility of hostility.

Under this major premise, the latter conjecture seems even more illogical.

Bai Yi only gave the answer based on the literal meaning, and Silvison was silent after listening, nodded after a few minutes, and said, "Death and new life, what do you think they refer to?"

"I also have two conjectures about this sentence," Bai Yi said: "First of all, I think this death may refer to Claude in a narrow sense, but in a broad sense, is it possible to refer to being destroyed by an 'innovator' with a virus in the last days?" world?"

He ended with a question again, and Silvison simply said, "Fine, go on."

"As for the new students—" Bai Yi paused, pursed his lips for a few seconds, and said, "As far as the first guess just now is concerned, the 'innovator' has perfect artificial human technology, so it is very likely to create another one." A physical body, allowing Claude's consciousness to be reborn in a new body."

"Secondly, I have a more abstract idea - this new student may refer to... this time I borrowed the power of Nine." Seeing that Silvison didn't respond, Bai Yi explained in more detail, " What I mean is that through the transfer of power, we have deduced a new way of connection from simple symbiosis, combining the necessary steps of the final devouring and being swallowed, this may be the ability he wants to use to predict my future?"

Hearing this, Silvison sat upright, put his elbows on the desk, crossed his fingers in front of him, and said with great interest: "Do you think he not only knows that the military exercise is just a means of trapping, but also can guess your Will you use the ability of the ninth-level mutant to deal with Claude?"

Bai Yi nodded cautiously.

Silverson: "Give me a reason."

"It's impossible for him to sacrifice Claude in vain. It must be for some purpose," Bai Yi said firmly, "I don't think he's sure that the military exercise is a trap set up by us, or that it doesn't matter whether it's a trap or not. Among the students participating in the military exercise are the undercover agents of 'innovators', and these people can force me to use Nine's ability, then his goal can already be achieved..."

"That doesn't explain the 'arrangement for Claude' death," Silverson said.

"Indeed..." Bai Yi sighed and agreed, "Anyway, a student who has followed me for more than 400 years must be more trustworthy than others. Claude's death will not do him any good."

"Hill, do you think Claude will be resurrected?"

"I'm not sure," Silverson said. "Right now I'm wondering if there's a third possibility."

Bai Yi said, "Do you think there are other possibilities?!"

Silverson nodded slowly, "Just now your inferences were all based on the fact that Bai Congxi was the mastermind, have you ever thought that this unreasonable action by the 'innovator' may not have been arranged by him ?”

"It's not my father..." Bai Yi was stunned, and after thinking for a while, his chaotic brain suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment, "You are right, my thinking is limited, he is only in charge of research within the 'innovator' The scientist of the virus is not the founder of this organization, and even I have always overestimated his power within the organization, so is it... the Pope?"

Silverson said: "Right now, it's just a guess. It's possible that one of your inferences above is correct, and it's also possible that the doctor's death was a warning to Bai Congxi from the 'enemy of humanity'—your student had to die."

Bai Yi was completely shocked.

If the truth is really the second one that Hill said, then this person who sentenced Claude to death in order to warn his father is a bit... too dictatorial!

The enemy of human beings is not human beings—could it be said that the other party is also a blood race?

After undergoing closed training in the mental domain, even though Bai Yi was still unable to maintain consciousness to block the active invasion, it was still relatively easy to just put the brain fluctuations into the deep layer so as to prevent the blood race from receiving passive feedback. However, seeing him in front of Silvison There was no need to hide anything, so the major general clearly received the brain wave of "the other party is also a blood race".

"What are you going to do about the encrypted content delivered by this Bible?" Bai Yi asked.

Silvison got up, tidied his uniform jacket, walked over to pick up the "Bible" on Bai Yi's lap and the paper with the decoding answer, and said, "Report to Admiral Brian."

"Now?" Bai Yi asked in surprise, "How do you explain the process of deciphering the code?"

"Don't worry, I've discussed it with Chen, you need to continue to keep it a secret that you are a ninth-level mutant created by the 'innovator'," Silvison comforted, "I'll find a reason for Brian to prevaricate. In the past, you were never exposed to the Alliance until it was safe to do so."

Bai Yi: "It sounds like you don't like the alliance?"

"Last time at the 'Innovator''s Paris base, you should have heard from that doctor that the first cooperation between humans and blood races was a genetic plan that had been concealed until now." Squinting, a trace of imperceptible contempt flickered from the bottom of his eyes, and said: "My teacher and I also opposed this kind of genetic modification that violated the laws of the universe, so naturally we would not agree with the alliance concluded on this premise. "

Bai Yi nodded. He had heard the phrase gene project more than once, but he didn't understand the more detailed content at all. There was no way to find out the secrets kept by the alliance.Seeing his curiosity, Silvison simply sat down next to Bai Yi, crossed his long legs, and unconsciously became serious in his voice.

"Frankly speaking, for human beings, the intention of this plan is to strengthen the race, and to put it more bluntly, it is to pursue eternal life." He smiled lightly and sarcastically said: "For the human superiors who advocated this plan, power, Speed ​​isn't what they're really looking for at all, perfecting the genes themselves is a superficial gimmick, they just don't want to die."

"For the blood race, cooperating with humans is actually a step in interstellar expansion." Bai Yi was stunned, and Silvison smiled meaningfully, and said, "Bye, don't you naively think that the blood race will provide genetic samples for free and fusion technology, just to get the title of 'Star Alliance'?"

Bai Yi sighed: "That's not true, it's just that you said 'expansion' too simply, I think it's a bit..."

"In fact, it's not complicated," Silverson said: "Back then, the blood race used genetic modification technology in exchange for colonial rights, trade rights, and some management rights. Although you have been asleep for 400 years, you have not been able to witness the changes during this period. , but the current internal system of the hive can fully explain the problem-the hierarchical system has returned, the high-level human beings are in name only, and the military power of the alliance is completely in the hands of Brian Assamai."

"Humans and blood races have changed from cooperation to dependence. After the end of the world, we began to occupy more and more dominance, and the appearance of 'innovators' will only make this phenomenon more and more obvious." After finishing speaking, Xi Ervison raised his eyelids, only to find that Bai Yi's expression was a little weird, and asked casually, "What's wrong?"

Bai Yi coughed, cleared his throat, and pretended to be serious: "I was thinking, since you said that the purpose of the vampires coming to the earth is to expand, then you are the enemies who invade the earth's resources—well, I'm considering whether to find an opportunity kill you?"

Hearing that Silvison didn't speak, but stared at him quietly with a half-smile, those aqua-blue eyes contained a hint of a coquettish smile, with playful eyes, like a dangerous predator The hunter is thinking about how to play with the prey that falls into his palm.

Captain Xiaobai, who was the prey, felt uncomfortable when he was seen, his hairs stood up one by one, and he had goose bumps all over his body under the warm room temperature. Just when he was thinking about how to adjust the atmosphere, the major general suddenly took the Bible 》Put it on the sofa next to you.

Bai Yi's dark eyes kept watching the other party's movements, swallowed calmly, and asked, "Didn't you just say...to report to the general?"

"Let's go tomorrow." As he said that, Silvison unbuttoned the silver buttons one by one, took off his combat uniform jacket slowly, and then gave Bai Yi a "you understand" look in an extremely ambiguous manner.

Bai Yi wiped off a drop of sweat from his forehead, and said with twitching corners of his mouth, "I suddenly remembered that I didn't feed Lucky with milk..."

Silverson smiled and said, "Well, go back to the bedroom after feeding, I'll wait for you."

Bai Yi was speechless, and reminded: "It is daytime, Major General..."

"Oh, how about I contact the self-circulation system monitoring department of the Central Academy of Sciences and ask them to fast forward the time to night?"

Captain Xiaobai: "..."

Is it really good to have a whole hive doing it for you, shameless Hill? !Bai Yi hid the content of his slander deep in his brain, finished spitting out silently, got up and walked to the door of the study, put his fingers on the doorknob, and unscrewed it, he turned around with a smirk and said, "Honey, why don't you wash it up and go to bed and wait for me?" return?"

After the words were lost, the wooden door was tremblingly closed, and the Major General was reminiscing about the figure that slipped out like a rabbit, the tip of his tongue slowly licked the seam of his lips, the lip line was raised, and finally froze into a cynical and frivolous smile.