The Return of Cambrian Period

Zhuang Yao said: "Abu, these are all yours."

Ah Qing squatted on the side with her chin in her hands, "Guests, eating here will stain my floor and also smell bad. I will charge you an additional fee, just 100 yuan."

Xiao Wang's eyes widened, "It's just a place to eat fish..."

Ah Qing glanced at him: "Doesn't it cost me water, electricity, and labor to clean?"

Cong Xia said: "It doesn't matter, we just pay the money."

Ah Qing smiled, "I have a super large pot, do you want it? The rent is only 20 yuan, and the boning knife is only [-] yuan."

Cong Xia smiled and said, "Yes, both."

Xiao Wang said: "You don't need to waste this money."

Cong Xia smiled without saying a word.

Energy is the last thing they need, and this new type of currency is as cheap as paper for them.

In order to comfort Abu, several people worked together to cook the fish. After eating the fish, Abu finally regained his energy.

When Abu was concentrating on eating fish, they were not idle. They set up a fish hot pot next to them. Aqing led the staff to participate in their picnic. A group of people and a cat ate and drank in the stadium.

Sometimes, they also miss the days of eating and sleeping in the wild and having hot pot around the fire. Now that they have no worries about food and clothing, it makes them feel unreal.

After dark, there were fewer people on the street, and Abu had enough to eat and drink, and his mood calmed down a bit, and he was finally willing to go back to the Academy of Sciences with them.

Xiao Wang arranged Abu in an antique pavilion in the Academy of Sciences. The pavilion was big and tall, and it was covered with cotton wool, just enough to make its nest.

After getting Abu settled, they walked to the third district.

They waited in the meeting room for a while, Cong Zhenzhong came, and brought a man with him. The man had fair complexion, pink lips, and exquisite facial features. He was as beautiful as a classical beauty walking out of a painting. He was wearing a military uniform. Wearing a white coat, although he looks very good-looking, he always gives people a robot-like cold feeling.

Cong Zhenzhong introduced: "This is the person in charge of the Sixth District of the Academy of Sciences, Senior Colonel Tang Ting."

Several people have heard his name. Tang Tingzhi is not only a brain evolutionist like Cong Zhenzhong, but also the first person in charge of the dragon blood experiment before the end of the world. Like Cong Zhenzhong and Zhuang Yu, he was originally a national treasure-level scientist.

Tang Tingzhi looked at each of them carefully, and his expressionless eyes made people feel a little uncomfortable. Finally, his eyes fell on Zhuang Yao, "Zhuang Yao, long time no see."

Zhuang Yao looked up at him, "Long time no see, Colonel."

"Four years, three months and seven days ago, you invited me to participate in the B26 experiment and promised to provide me with three months' salary, but in the end you left without paying. The total principal and interest were converted into new currency, and you owe me 6000 yuan .”

Zhuang Yao blinked.

Tang Tingzhi said in a robot-like calm tone: "I'm married, and my other half is very good at spending money."

Zhuang Yao shrugged: "I'll give it to you in a moment, cash."

Cong Zhenzhong smiled and said, "Let's talk about business." He used the remote control in his hand to raise a curtain wall of the meeting room, which turned out to be a secret door.Immediately, a super-large laboratory appeared in front of them. The laboratory used a large area of ​​tempered glass materials, glass curtain walls, glass floors, and the entire three floors were transparent, making this laboratory full of futuristic fantasy. The laboratory There are dozens of scientific researchers busy at the same time.He introduced: "This is a comprehensive laboratory, mainly researching species evolution and Cambrian energy."

"Cambrian energy?"

"Yes, the energy released after the earthquake is free from the energy of the five elements, that is, the energy released by the puppet jade."

Zhuang Yao nodded, "We called it non-attribute elemental energy before."

"The name of non-attribute elemental energy is also very accurate. Compared with the energy of the five elements that make up everything in the world, Cambrian energy can't find its place on the earth. This energy completely broke the ecological balance and promoted the rapid evolution of species. , At least a million times faster than the Cambrian evolution." Cong Zhenzhong said: "Come here."

Several people walked outside the door of a spherical laboratory. Cong Zhenzhong and Tang Tingzhi performed iris scanning on a black LCD panel at the same time. The door of the spherical laboratory opened, several people entered one after another, and the door closed behind them.

There is no one in the spherical laboratory. The interior of the laboratory is very large, surrounded by various complicated experimental instruments. In the center of the laboratory, there is a rectangular platform. On the platform is a glass cover with a thickness of more than ten centimeters. There are four manipulators inside the cover, and in the center of the glass cover is a silver-white sphere the size of a basketball.

"What is this?" Cong Xia was attracted by the sphere.

Cong Zhenzhong said: "That's puppet jade."

"Puppet jade?"

Cong Zhenzhong nodded, and pulled a computer from the side, "It's a puppet jade wrapped in metal."

"Aluminium metal? Is it a silver-white soft metal that will become extremely heavy if it is too far away from the puppet jade?"

Cong Zhenzhong said: "That's right, the scientific expedition team wrapped the puppet jade in metal and handed it over to Xiao Cheng, otherwise, Xiao Cheng would be finished now."

Cheng Tianbi said: "What do you mean?"

Cong Zhenzhong said: "Don't worry, we have a lot of things to discuss today, let me show you this puppet jade first." His fingers touched the computer, and after a while, a color image appeared on the computer, "I No one has the right to decide to open the silver metal, but I can show you what the puppet jade looked like when it was put in the silver metal during the last recovery of the puppet jade."

With a light tap of his finger, a three-dimensional image was projected into the air, a virtual space appeared in front of his eyes, and an incomplete sphere the size of a ping-pong ball appeared directly in front of them. Jade.

"Is this puppet jade?" Cong Xia subconsciously reached out to touch it. Of course, he could only touch the air.

"Yes, this is the original appearance of the puppet jade." Cong Zhenzhong said: "We have been collecting the fragments of the puppet jade, trying to piece it together."

Zhuang Yao looked at the virtual image quietly, "What is the purpose of doing this?"

Cong Zhenzhong said: "Zhuang Yao, I don't know how far your cognition of puppet jade has reached under the condition of limited research conditions, but after our one-year research, no, not only one year, as early as Zhuang Yu proposed The idea of ​​'Cambrian Consciousness', when they detected the super energy body of puppet jade with special instruments, we have already started to study it. We have come to the conclusion that puppet jade is the 'Cambrian Consciousness' to achieve the balance of the earth 'Tool', I think maybe you have already thought of it." Speaking of this, Cong Zhenzhong sighed, "Zhuang Yu is a genius who is rare in a thousand years, he could have helped mankind with his advanced cognition of 'Cambrian Consciousness', Postponing the coming of the second Cambrian period by at least a hundred years, let us start from this generation and help our descendants prepare for the doomsday, but..."

Zhuang Yao's face darkened.

Cheng Tianbi said in a deep voice, "Did the expedition to Qinghai trigger the second Cambrian explosion?"

Cong Zhenzhong said: "I can't be 100% sure, but it's at least [-]% likely."

Cong Xia gasped.

Cambrian consciousness, scientific expedition team, Qinghai, earthquake, puppet jade, this series of actions finally caused the tragic situation of human beings today. In less than a year, nearly [-]% of the population on this land of China disappeared , [-]%, [-] million fresh lives just disappeared.Because the data is too huge, it has exceeded the imagination of ordinary people, and if all this can be postponed for a hundred years, with a hundred years of technology as the foundation and preparation, it will definitely not be as miserable as it is now.

Cong Zhenzhong said: "Zhuang Yu didn't intend to trigger the puppet jade on purpose. After all, it was not his decision to send the scientific expedition team to Qinghai. The disaster has already happened, and what we have to do is to remedy it. However, in the work of human reconstruction, We had irreconcilable differences with Zhuang Yu's faction. Zhuang Yu advocated the survival of the fittest and vigorously "produced" mutant humans, while Colonel Tang and I advocated the revival of all mankind. Recently, their faction has received more opposition from outsiders. The main reason is that all the citizens know that mutants cannot reproduce, and the reason from within the Academy of Sciences is because of a more terrifying reason."

The crowd listened with bated breath.

Cong Zhenzhong's slender fingers quickly slid on the LCD screen, and the mirror reflected a faint blue light, making it difficult to see his emotions. "I'll show you a video."

The virtual image in front of him turned into a completely sealed laboratory. The laboratory was very large, with an area close to a basketball court, but only a small white mouse was placed in such a large laboratory.

Cong Zhenzhong explained: "This is the seventh day after the birth of this little white mouse. We put it into this laboratory and received 24 hours of uninterrupted, maximum radiation from the puppet jade. Then..." He clicked on a certain button, the image starts to fast forward.

They stared at the little white mouse intently, and after a while, the little white mouse began to mutate.First of all, like all mutant mice, it began to expand in size and become larger. Food was continuously thrown over the laboratory. It became bigger and bigger. When it grew to three meters high, its body began to grow. Strong muscles appeared, the hair fell off, and the original snow-white fur turned into a brown-black armor-like hard skin. Its tail was thicker than a human thigh. It began to be dissatisfied with this confined space, and it became very manic. Land hits the wall with its body, and the solid hard steel wall is often dented by it.It grew bigger and bigger, and finally turned into a giant monster covered in solid hard skin and fully armed to the top of its head. At this time, it could barely be seen as a mouse except for its size, and it had completely lost its original shadow.The next development was even more exaggerated. Its bones began to protrude from the skin, its eyes were protruding, and its cheeks were sunken. It looked very scary. When it grew into a giant monster with a height of more than five meters, the laboratory seemed to be closed. it's gone.It kept hitting the walls, smashing the floor, and finally, it roared wildly, making a nightmarish sound, and then, bang, it exploded!

Bright red blood and chunks of minced meat floated into the air like a torrential rain, covering the camera, and the silver-white space was filled with shocking bloodstains.

All those who focused on the little white mouse were taken aback and took a step back subconsciously. The three-dimensional virtual picture was too real, and the erupting blood plasma seemed to hit their faces.

Cong Zhenzhong looked at them quietly, "The video you are watching is the 196-day experience of this little white mouse. During the past six months, it has been continuously irradiated by the puppet jade at close range, and it has evolved crazily, changing almost every day. , but in the end, it perishes."

Cong Xia said with lingering fear: "Is this a side effect of the puppet jade?"

"It's just one of them." Cong Zhenzhong closed the bloody picture, "This little white mouse is just one of our experiments, and we have 38 more experimental subjects, involving various species. The lower the animal, the more it will be destroyed." It takes about a long time, and the more advanced animals, such as the orangutan closest to humans, it only took four months to evolve from madness to destruction. When the orangutan died, it became an eight-meter-tall, fifteen-ton-weight The real King Kong, the pieces of which we cleaned up for a week."

Zhuang Yao said in a deep voice, "Is this the ultimate evolution?"

Cong Zhenzhong looked at them calmly, "That's right, this is the ultimate evolution. Of course, receiving the radiation from the largest piece of puppet jade at close range for [-] hours is completely different from our living in the air with Cambrian energy micro-radiation. The speed of evolution is at least a thousand times worse. Some mutants will not be exposed to the close-range radiation of the puppet jade for a lifetime, and they will not evolve to this level until they die. However, the faster the mutants evolve, the closer they are to destruction. The ultimate evolution, It is destruction."

Everyone was silent.After seeing the miserable situation of that little white mouse, no one would not be worried. If he continued to evolve, he would also be like a fully inflated ball, with a "bang" sound of blood and flesh splattering.They kept cultivating and strengthening themselves along the way, hoping to make themselves evolve faster and better, but the end of evolution was a tragic death. How did they deal with themselves?

"This is the reason why we do not agree to continue developing mutants. The function of a living body is doomed from the moment of birth. There is a limit to using external forces to promote evolution. It exceeds the limit of the living body's function and can only bring about destruction. The consequences. Our task now is definitely not to use puppet jade to continuously create mutants, or to accelerate the evolution of mutants, but to collect puppet jade and find a way to seal this terrible energy. Only in this way can we curb the genocide of mankind Fate. Otherwise, in just one generation, with infertility and accelerated evolution, human beings will be completely eliminated from this planet, and no amount of high-tech and hard weapons will be able to save us."

Cheng Tianbi said lightly: "So you have been collecting puppet jade."

"That's right. On the point of collecting puppet jade, we agree with Zhuang Yu, but we disagree on the usage. Therefore, every time we use puppet jade, we must vote."

"Even if you can gather all the puppet jade, have you found a way to seal it? Can you do it with this kind of silver metal?"

Cong Zhenzhong shook his head, "Aluminium metal can only temporarily block the radiation of the puppet jade. At first we also wanted to use this metal to seal it, but it turned out to be unreliable, otherwise it would not be dug up by the scientific expedition team." Come out and split."

Zhuang Yao asked: "How many fragments are there in the puppet jade?"

Cong Zhenzhong said with a wry smile: "The earthquake sent the puppet jade flying, and most of the fragments were as big as fingernails. If we assume that all the fragments are this big, there are still at least twenty pieces left outside, and some of them are still there. Our country may be in the deep sea, it may be abroad, or it may be in any corner of the world."

Hearing this number, everyone seemed to have a big stone on their hearts.

Cong Zhenzhong sighed: "Spring is here, and creatures on land and in the sea are beginning to recover. We will usher in a second wave of evolutionary frenzy. Beijing, which has been quiet for a winter, is very likely to encounter large-scale attacks again. Threats are everywhere." He looked at several people, "A person with strength should bear the responsibility that matches his strength. As long as the Cambrian consciousness does not sleep for a day, our battle will never end."

Cheng Tianbi said in a deep voice, "Do you want us to collect puppet jade?"

Cong Zhenzhong nodded, "It's not just you, the Dragon Blood Clan, Jiujiang County, Fenglanhui, Liudaohuangquan, these powerful mutant organizations that you are familiar with, have all been given the same mission - to collect puppet jade. Puppet jade is out for a day , the species around it will become stronger day by day, and the difficulty of our collection will increase day by day, such as the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Pin'an, the Ice Natural Force Evolution Man in Chongqing, the Xiaoxingrong Pine Forest in the Northeast, the giant sea beast in the South China Sea, and Qinghai..."

Several people were startled, they had personally come into contact with the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the Ice Evolution Man.

Zhuang Yao said: "Introduce each of them to us. Pin'an and Chongqing are the places we have traveled before."

"I know, you have also had contact with Wu You, haven't you?"

Cong Xia nodded.

"Let me start with Wu You. A few months ago we knew that there was a natural force evolutionist in Chongqing, and we sent people to try to persuade him to come to Beijing, but he was unwilling. He refused to accept anyone's command. He would rather stay in Chongqing. Now he got a piece of puppet jade, controlled the entire Chongqing, established his own kingdom in the Sichuan-Chongqing area, and his influence has extended to the neighboring cities of Sichuan. The emperor is much more comfortable than coming to Beijing to compete with other natural force evolutionists and be under the control of the army. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to take back the puppet jade in his hand."

Cong Xia recalled Wu You's terrifying energy fluctuations, and then thought of Chongqing's impenetrable terrain and good living conditions. It is indeed even more difficult to defeat Wu You, and it is best to find a way to persuade.

Cong Zhenzhong said: "Let's talk about the Pin'an Big Wild Goose Pagoda, I think you have experienced it yourself. Yao Qianjiang brought more than a dozen high-level mutants into the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and he was the only one who survived. The bugs in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda are as numerous as stars. The energy of a person who has evolved through natural forces has been exhausted alive, but we cannot use heavy weapons to attack the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. There is something in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda that binds those bugs. In many regions, with their reproduction speed, I'm afraid it will be out of control by then."

"We have a lot of new discoveries about the Big Wild Goose Pagoda."

"Oh?"

Zhuang Yao looked around, "There is surveillance here."

Cong Zhenzhong nodded, "Yes, I will take you to a safe place later."

"Okay, then about the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, we'll talk about it later, so you can continue."

"You should know something about what I'm going to say next. Do you still remember that in the center of Kunming, not long after the earthquake, there was a pine tree that evolved at an astonishing speed?"

Cong Xia's eyes widened, "Why don't you remember, that pine tree turned out to be our company's bonsai pine! Is it still alive?"

Cong Zhenzhong sighed: "It's not just alive, we call it Devil Pine now. There is evidence that it is a mutant with a human, but it is very likely that this human's self-awareness failed when it competed with Devil Pine for control. Did not come to human society, but went to the northeast where the pine trees are most dense. Now, Xiaoxingrong is occupied by it, where the forest area is about 13 square kilometers, and the devil pine dominates the plants on one third of the land, and, It is expanding in all directions every day, and at this rate, within three years, Heilongjiang Province will cease to exist, and the three eastern provinces will sooner or later become boundless pine forests."

Cong Xia gasped, remembering the two encounters he had with the bonsai pine in the two days after the earthquake. In less than 24 hours, the pine tree had already occupied their company. , If this pine tree is still alive and keeps evolving, how big will it become, but how terrible will it be when it evolves to rule a forest larger than Hainan Island?

Cheng Tianbi asked: "How big is the Devil Pine's body?"

"According to statistics obtained a month ago, its height exceeded 600 meters."

Liu Fengyu was surprised: "600... meters?" What kind of monster is that?He couldn't believe that he had attacked that monster in the first place.

Deng Xiao clicked his tongue and said, "You said an extra zero."

"It's 600 meters, not still evolving."

Cong Xia felt flustered, "Maybe it has evolved to a certain level, and it will explode."

"It's possible, but we can't hope for it. If it explodes, it may destroy the entire Northeast region. Due to its remote location and freezing weather, food rots slowly, and it is difficult for mutated animals and plants to grow. It is one of the areas least affected by the Cambrian energy, so the human death rate is much lower than ours, and there are still several million people, no one wants it to explode, at least now it is only expanding, not deliberately attacking humans. Devil pine Not only is the expansion speed amazing, but the most frightening thing is that it also has a human brain that can think, attack detection machines, and even talk."

"What did it say?"

"It said to our probe, 'Get away from me, get the hell out of the way'."

Cong Xia sighed, "It also has puppet jade, doesn't it?"

"Yes, embedded in its body, it is protected by the plants and animals in the vast Xiaoxingrong virgin forest. To deal with the devil pine, we can only bomb it with weapons of mass destruction, but that will also kill nearby civilians. , Moreover, the puppet jade is not indestructible, if it becomes more shattered, it will be troublesome."

Zhuang Yao said: "Go on, what does the giant sea beast in the South China Sea mean?"

Cong Zhenzhong said in a deep voice: "We observed the rise of marine life before winter last year. Aquatic life is generally larger than land life. There are many super life forms in the South China Sea. They are evolving at a very fast speed. , It is entirely possible to land on land in the future. The people of Hainan Island and Xihai Island have been completely isolated on the island. Except for creatures with wings, they cannot leave. If they continue to evolve, marine creatures will be even more terrifying than devil pine Threat. In addition, we have also observed the emergence of new species in Qinghai. Qinghai now has the largest number of puppet jade fragments. We suspect that there are no real humans there. In addition, this is only a fragment of puppet jade in our country. It appeared in seven countries on several continents, and without exception, it gave birth to a very difficult group of mutated creatures."

Cong Xia pondered for a moment: "Are these mutated creatures, like the bugs in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, sensitive to puppet jade?"

"Almost, whether it's the bugs in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the devil pine in the Northeast, or the super life forms in the South China Sea, or even some mutated species from abroad, they all have a common characteristic, which is their attachment to puppet jade."

Liu Fengyu pouted, "Professor, you told us so much, did you want us to collect puppet jade for you?"

Cong Zhenzhong said seriously: "Mr. Liu, it's not for me. This is not the responsibility of any individual, but the responsibility of all mankind. If you want to save the endangered human beings, you must seal the puppet jade and let the Cambrian consciousness fall asleep. Although there is no clear time rule for the awakening of martial consciousness, it is all in units of hundreds of millions of years. As long as we can survive this disaster, human beings can continue to multiply until...until we go to destruction due to other reasons, But that is the responsibility of our descendants. As mutant humans who have acquired special abilities, we should take on the burden of saving humanity."

All six were silent.

Standing on the front line to recapture the puppet jade?That means that they have to constantly challenge powerful mutant species, go through the test of life and death, fighting, killing, bloodshed, and sacrifice will become the main content of their lives. Wishes are too far apart.

In all fairness, who is willing to take on such a heavy responsibility?However, if they didn't do anything, they would just sit and wait to die. Either they would die from the threat of mutant creatures, or they would die from the ultimate evolutionary self-destruction.Cong Zhenzhong was right, they fought not only for others, but also for themselves.

Tang Tingzhi, who had been silent all this time, came over, sliding his slender fingers on the screen, and a three-dimensional image changed in front of his eyes, and he said: "This is the reason why the military department and the four major mutant organizations in Beijing have collected puppet jade in the past year." Quantity, and battle damage."

They looked up.

The [-]th Army recovered [-] puppet jade fragments and sacrificed [-] people.

The [-]th Army recovered [-] puppet jade fragments and sacrificed [-] people.

The dragon blood clan recovered [-] puppet jade fragments and sacrificed [-] people.

In Jiujiang County, [-] puppet jade fragments were recovered, and [-] people were sacrificed.

Feng Lanhui recovered [-] puppet jade fragments and sacrificed [-] people.

In the Six Paths of the Underworld, [-] pieces of puppet jade fragments were recovered, and [-] people were sacrificed.

Below are the number of puppet jade fragments recovered by various troops across the country and the number of victims. Behind the shocking numbers are all fresh human lives.

Tang Tingzhi said: "The biggest puppet jade in front of you was bought with the blood of 20 ordinary people and mutants. We have been to many places, and we have seen huge creatures that were born in the mud and were taken by thousands of people. The army of ants besieged and fought bloody battles with thousands of mutated vultures. No one wants to fight, but if we don’t fight, the puppet jade will run all over the world under the butterfly effect of various chances and coincidences. On the surface, Beijing It is so safe, guarded by 40 heavy soldiers, and nearly [-] mutants are stationed, everyone can eat, and will not be frozen to death or starved to death, but these days will not last long, and human beings cannot sit still."

Cong Zhenzhong said: "Our country is the hardest-hit area affected by the Cambrian energy, but at the same time, it is also the area where human evolution is strongest. We passed a proposal at the United Nations last month to gather the existing military forces in the world. Help our country collect puppet jade. Although we haven’t found a way to seal the puppet jade yet, wrapping the puppet jade with aluminium-metallic metal can still fight for decades for mankind. Even if it’s just for decades, we have to fight to the end .”

Liu Fengyu smiled wryly: "It seems that what we have seen before is just a piece of cake."

Cong Zhenzhong put his hand on Cong Xia's shoulder, with complicated emotions in his eyes, "Xiao Xia, you are my only remaining relative, I know you are honest and just an ordinary person, I really hope you are still an ordinary person Human, but... you have the ability we need most, your ability is more precious than the evolution of natural force that can only appear one out of hundreds of millions of people, because so far you are unique, and we need your help." He looked Xiang Chengtianbi, "Others can refuse to continue fighting, but you, Cheng Tianbi and Zhuang Yao, cannot refuse."

Deng Xiao shouted: "I'm not afraid of anything, I want to save all mankind! Brother Cong, don't worry, I will protect you."

Liu Fengyu smiled helplessly, "As a mutant, do I have the right to refuse? If my parents are still alive, I will fight to protect them. If they are gone, I have no reason to fear death."

Tang Yanqiu said calmly: "For my people, I will stay too."

Cong Xia said tremblingly: "Second Uncle, I have no intention of backing down. In fact, I understood from the very beginning that I did not acquire such abilities to let me live a happy life alone."

Cong Zhenzhong stroked his hair, and said in a hoarse voice: "Xiao Xia, one day when we all go and see my elder brother and sister-in-law, I will apologize to them."

Cheng Tianbi said: "What's the next plan?"

Tang Tingzhi said: "You just said that there is the latest news about the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. We want to see it."

"Second Uncle, we need to go to a place that is absolutely safe and confidential, and besides..." Cong Xia looked at Tang Tingzhi, he didn't know whether to trust this person, after all, he wanted to tell his Second Uncle Gu Yu's secret.

Cong Zhenzhong said: "Colonel Tang can trust you with confidence."

Tang Tingzhi turned off the computer, "Follow me."

Several people walked out of the spherical laboratory.

When leaving the laboratory, Cong Xia took a last look at the glass display case. Although the puppet jade was wrapped in metal and they could only see it through the video, Cong Xia seemed to see the black mist exuding magic through many barriers. The jet-black jade, that's it, killed billions of human beings within a year, and if it is not stopped, human beings will disappear from this planet forever.Thinking of this, Cong Xia felt that this spherical laboratory was suffocating.

They followed Cong Zhenzhong and Tang Tingzhi through the gates and came to a claustrophobic conference room. The conference room was not very spacious. There was only a table, a computer, a projector and a few chairs inside, which was very simple.

After closing the door, Cong Zhenzhong said, "This place is absolutely safe."

Zhuang Yao pushed the SD card in front of them: "We found this in a camera we took back from the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. This card recorded some situations inside the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. The images showed that the last batch of people who followed Yao Qianjiang into the Wild Goose Pagoda The mutants in the tower, they didn't die, but some of them were mutated by bugs."

"Secondary mutation..." Cong Zhenzhong said: "Those people are already mutants, and they are also mutated by bugs. We call it secondary mutation. Although this kind of situation is very rare, it is not uncommon. It seems that in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda bugs are becoming more dangerous."

Tang Tingzhi turned on the computer and put the SD card into it. Zhuang Yao played the most terrifying video for them. Cong Zhenzhong took a deep breath, pointed to the person standing on the screen and said, "This person is the former Seventh Brother of Jiujiang County." The leader of Jiangmen should have died in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda."

Zhuang Yao said: "We suspect that all the videos were recorded by this person, because the first video may show the situation when he was alienated by bugs." He opened the first video, which was obtained by Cheng Tianbi and Cong Xia. The scene seen by the camera that night, the eye with yellow pupils on the screen, and the cry for help that does not seem like a human can make people creepy.

Tang Tingzhi said: "Tomorrow I will go to Yao Qianjiang and ask him to identify whether the remaining two people belong to them."

Cong Zhenzhong said worriedly: "It is conservatively estimated that there are three mutants in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda who have been mutated by bugs. We have been paying attention to Pin'an's movements for a long time, but recently it has been quiet and there is no special situation. Could it be that they are also like bugs? , were you bound inside the Big Wild Goose Pagoda?"

Zhuang Yao said: "It would be best if this is the case, but with these three humans, the worms will have wisdom. After having wisdom, the worms will definitely find a way to get rid of the shackles of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Without self-awareness, they would not want to be trapped in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda for the rest of their lives. What I worry about is that they are no longer in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, but have mixed into human society in the form of human beings, and things will become troublesome if they do so.”

What Zhuang Yao said was the worst-case scenario. With those bugs' attachment to the puppet jade, after they have human wisdom, they will definitely find a way to leave the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and come after the puppet jade.They felt chills at the thought that those worms might stand in front of them in human form, with thousands of worms wriggling inside their bodies.

Cong Zhenzhong and Tang Tingzhi looked at those videos and photos carefully, and their faces became more and more serious the more they looked at them.

Cheng Tianbi asked: "Can you detect the whereabouts of all the puppet jade?"

Cong Zhenzhong said: "All of them have been detected within the scope of our country. The accuracy depends on the distance. If it exceeds [-] kilometers, it can only be accurate to the city, but it is not difficult to find it. Other countries are local troops. According to the data provided, we have basically located all the puppet jades in the world. We have basically recovered all the puppet jades that are relatively easy to recycle. Like the one in Wei Zi’s hand, it can only be regarded as low-level difficulty; the one in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda The puppet jade is of high difficulty; the most difficult to recover will be the one to four pieces in Qinghai, the one in the hands of Devil Song, and the one that fell into the deep sea and was occupied by marine life. As for the few pieces abroad, the specific situation We don't know yet. We have detailed plans for all the puppet jade left outside, rest assured, you will definitely not fight alone."

Zhuang Yao rubbed his chin, "From tomorrow, I will officially join the third district, and I want to get more information."

"No problem, your work clothes, name tags, key cards and other things are all ready."

Zhuang Yao smiled, "You are really welcome."

Cong Zhenzhong smiled slightly, "Of course, although brain evolutionists have the freedom to choose which experimental area to go to, I know that you will definitely come to the third area. You have so many companions, you will not be willing to part with them."

Zhuang Yao glanced at them, turned his face away awkwardly, "What does it have to do with them, I'm just too lazy to change rooms."

Deng Xiao rubbed his head, and said with a smile: "Little Zhuang Yao, you obviously don't want to part with us. Where can I find such a handsome and powerful brother like me?"

Zhuang Yao pushed his hand away, stroked his hair, and didn't speak.

Cong Zhenzhong closed the computer, "We will study the contents of this card carefully. Now, I really want to know the big secret that Xiao Xia you want to share with us."

Cong Xia took a deep breath, "Second uncle, as you said, this secret is the reason why I have this special ability, and I think this secret may help us find a way to seal the puppet jade."

Both Cong Zhenzhong and Tang Ting's eyes lit up.

Cong Xia looked at Cheng Tianbi, "Tianbi."

Cheng Tianbi opened his clothes, untied the bandages wrapped around him layer by layer, and took out the ancient jade with the puppet jade tied on both sides.

Cong Zhenzhong and Tang Tingzhi's eyes widened, "What is this?"

Cong Xia said: "We call it ancient jade..."