Chapter 254

Over there, Tang Er was chatting with Fang Xiaoxiao.

Talking about small talk, Tang Er, who was once the captain of the Heresy Management Bureau, is always extra vigilant against npcs like Fang Xiaoxiao who are suspicious, or monsters, and he can't help but put some points in his words Means torture.

"How do you know that we went to the observation station and saw another Fang Xiaoxiao?" Tang Er asked imperceptibly, "I feel that you are very skilled at being dug out."

Fang Xiaoxiao seemed not surprised by Tang Er's interrogation of him, so he just smiled miserably: "Because I was not dug out for the first time, they are monsters just to test the foreign Human beings also need to test the reactions of the same kind in our human group.”

"When we were thrown into the ice crevasses in the early days, this monster also filled us with snow."

"They want to do a project on how humans survive in a desperate environment with limited resources. They tell us that within a few days they will gradually fill in the snow and enter the ice crevasses. During this period, humans who can grab resources and escape They were released, and those that managed to escape were permanently frozen."

When he said this, he closed his eyes with great difficulty, and tears rolled down his face: "In order to mislead these monsters, human cognition, so that they can kill each other and tend to become extinct when simulating humans, we simulated A realistic scene of robbing resources, cruelly killing Fang."

Fang Xiaoxiao took a deep breath, and the hands holding the cup stopped shaking. He lowered his head and took a sip of hot water. Tang Er noticed the coagulated blood between his teeth. It's like biting the prey.

"We...focused our resources on the youngest team members, let them escape, and after a few days, we were buried by snowfill."

When Fang Xiaoxiao's always melancholy expression came to this point, he finally restrained his ferocity, and he roared hoarsely and sadly like a wounded beast that made a sound from its throat:

"We thought their experiment was over! But we never imagined that they marked the young team members who left, kept monitoring the whereabouts of these young team members, and then took the young team members here. When the team members controlled their emotions and came back to rescue us, the monsters lost their interest in research, they misled their direction, and asked them to dig another ice crevasse!!"

Fang Xiaoxiao was trembling all over:

"...the group of things set up a control camera group. They made the two monsters transform into the appearance of the escaped young team members to dig our ice crevasse, and induced the young team members to dig another A crack in the ice filled with monsters that have transformed into us..."

"They want to know how easy it is for human victors to believe in the losers they save, and how easy it is for human losers to trust the winners who save them..."

Tang Er opened his mouth. Seeing Fang Xiaoxiao's numb expression, he restrained his tone and said softly, "So... what's the test result?"

Fang Xiaoxiao had no expression on her face, except for an ugly and stiff smile on the corner of her mouth, and tears flowed from her empty eyes:

"We identified the [winners] after we were dug up, but the kids didn't identify the [losers] they saved, they lived with the monsters they saved for two months, and After also having sex with two of the monsters, the two children were brought before us to reveal the results."

"These kids went crazy. They doused themselves with fuel oil, and after burning, they jumped into strong acid and killed themselves."

"I know that Fang Xiaoxiao is one of the humanoid monsters they simulated to deceive this child."

Tang Er was silent for a moment, and continued to ask: "How are you sure about our monster who came to dig you?"

Fang Xiaoxiao moved her eyeballs dully, and muttered to herself: "You guys will never know how to create monsters, because these monsters can only imitate human beings that have appeared before, and there is no way to imitate them." Human beings, I have never seen you in Antarctica."

"And they have tested our ability to judge [humans] who dig us, and they will not work harder on this kind of thing. Even if they come to dig us, they usually don't In the form of protoplasm, it will become a human."

Bai Liu, who was carrying out the excavation work over there, waved his hand and signaled Tang Er to come over.

Tang Er concentrated his eyes on Fang Xiaoxiao who was sitting on the sled and moving around for a long while, even though he knew that this graduate student was only an NPC, in the end he could not bear to pat him. Shoulder: "... you rest here, don't run around."

After finishing speaking, he trotted to Bai Liu's side and truthfully reported what Fang Xiaoxiao had just said to him.

Mu Sicheng couldn't stop the goosebumps all over his body, and rubbed his arms frantically.

Bai Liu was thoughtful, and then showed a smile that made Mu Sicheng's spine chill: "It seems that the situation is more complicated and interesting than we thought, and I probably know what this Mr. Edmund wants to do Yes, but I have to contact Mu Ke to see if he has found anything like the old professor’s diary to support my guess.”

Mu Sicheng was confused: "Then shall we still dig?"

"Dig." Bai Liu simply ordered, with a slight smile, "Dig out all of them and bring them back to Taishan Station. Let's stand together and see who is the monster."

Mu Sicheng: "!!!"

Edmond Observatory.

Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi almost emptied out all the books and materials in the entire observation station, and read them one by one according to the name. Liu Jiayi was assigned to do a shallow reading task, and a professional deep reading task. It will be undertaken by Mu Ke, and after the translation, it will be handed over to Liu Jiayi for information integration.

Fortunately, graduate students live here at the Edmond Observatory, and there are some elementary textbooks in the dormitory, so that when Mu Ke reads the experimental data, he can barely have a reference book to look up, which makes it a little easier.

"Mainly professional books on meteorology and biology, as well as some books on sociology." Mu Ke searched for the bookcase dragged out of Edmond's cabin. He flipped through it quickly and briefly glanced at the contents. Mainly look at the comments.

Then he paused suddenly, pondered for a moment and then said: "It seems that this Professor Edmund is very satisfied with politics and the authorities. He wrote this in their modern history books praising human rights liberation. talk."

Liu Jiayi poked her head over and read it out: "——exploiting labor in parallel is the primary human right of capital. (Note 1)."

Mu Ke flipped through the pages again: "It's also here, written next to the Bahata war record, this is a battle launched by the other party's private development of biological and chemical weapons."

Liu Jiayi read it word by word: "——Order with freedom and freedom with order are equally destructive (Note 2)."

Mu Ke continued to rummage through the observation station, and found a private fax record between Edmund and Taishan Observation Station in a criminal record file in the archives room. There was a yellow forbidden seal on it, which read: [ Copy of Edmund’s betrayal evidence]

Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi glanced at each other, and tore it apart without hesitation.

The fax records inside are arranged according to date, which is very straightforward.

October 1:

My friend, you know, I have tested this body part, it, or they, indeed can not be used for any scientific research, they have ethics Physical mistakes, mental pollution, violated my basic moral principles as a human scientist.

I understand why it's sealed here, it really should be outside, I'll try to convince the "robbers" who robbed your boxes, and leave the box unscathed (well, maybe ‌without a hair being damaged) and return it to you.

You have done a dangerous and great thing. One hundred years later, human beings should engrave you on the jie fang (the pinyin written by Edmund here) monument to praise you! (You talked to me last time, your fighter honor roll is called jie fang stele, right?)

Congratulations on your happy building!

October 7:

We are sorry that we may not be able to return your boxes for the time being.

It is strange to say that this is the first time that I am forced to implement my research results by myself.

What I feel now is taste and warmth. When I walk on the road, I will suddenly fall funny, because the brain stem has been remodeled, and there is a small problem with the sense of balance (but before the remodeling, wrestling is also a problem. ‌My old guy ‌ used to do) everything else is okay, I feel like I have become a little warm whale, maybe I should go to the sea now and have a close kiss with the real little warm whale?

After all, I am no longer afraid of severe cold, and I am no longer a human being. To be a whale in the deep sea may be a wrong choice for me.

Hey, I quite like the way they rub on the rocks when they're molting and itching, exactly the same way my old guy has a way of scratching his back and rubbing on the wardrobe.

‌Don't worry about the box, they still need me to do research, I can always find a way to return the box to you.

October 17:

Oh my god, are you guys scared by me?

The child named Xiaofang cried loudly while hugging my broken leg. I remember that he was a student, and I had supervised his thesis before.

It must be said that it was really a bad paper. In many places in the image, even the unit is missing, and the format of the literature citations is also full of mistakes and omissions. I really don’t know how this kid was admitted to graduate school. He can still come to Antarctica (it means that the child's tutor is a parallel importer).

This time they drove a snowmobile and dragged me by the neck to wipe it away in the snow. This is my punishment for trying to steal the box again, or rather, the time my body can bear. It’s just a daily test. After all, I’m the most successful modified product now, and I’m still a criminal. It seems that there is no experiment that excites this group of people more than me—this is the tradition of our family. .

Although in the end my limbs rolled off my body like a rusty pen holder, it was so painful because it was already frozen, so I told the child not to cry for me.

It made me sad to see the look on his face when he was howling loudly and chasing my scattered legs, he called me teacher, God, I swear this is the happiest thing I have heard in a month Yes, even though he was crying, I couldn't help laughing behind the snowmobile.

After I was turned into a criminal, it has been a long time since someone called me a teacher.

Don’t worry about me, I will find a way to deal with the box, the way of fax contact is still relatively secret, and the paper material makes these idiots think I’m not that brave, I’ll let you know if there’s any development Yours.

December 17:

They seem to have found out that I was faxing you secretly, so I think I stopped for two months.

Well, maybe I was too arrogant and underestimated the intelligence of this group of people, faxes are indeed safe.

This may be the last time I have maintained the human will to send you a fax. My friends, please allow me, an old bone, to babble and tell about my life. ‌I found someone else to talk to.

I came to Antarctica ten or ten years ago. At that time, the observatory was called the Edmond Observatory.

The person who sent me to the Polaris icebreaker was a veteran of the Peninsula War (although he was not old at that time, but he looked too old at that time, I always feel like this ‌fun him).

He is my only friend.

After all, a nerd like me couldn’t find a second person willing to talk to me in that adventurous gold rush era.

Fifteen years after I came to Antarctica, he left me forever because of the disability caused by the war and the embarrassment of life, and then I sent him every year (he insisted on borrowing) living expenses by one cent before he died ‌The ground gave it back to me.

The doctor told me that he voluntarily gave up treatment, because after the war, he was always tormented by pain, and he always had that bloody color in his dreams. This is a very normal phenomenon, and many soldiers have it.

But I know for such a simple reason, my friend died in another war.

His only reason for participating in the war is to end the war.

He was taught, deceived, and used by public opinion and politics to use justice and friendship to go to the battlefield, thinking that every knife he stabbed and every shot he fired was to save many people who were trapped and injured by the war. ordinary people.

But he deeply realized that the people he killed were as innocent as him, which made him miserable, and the only reason that could persuade him to continue was the slogan at the time—let this be our The last war in history, let us end this chaotic and fair world.

He thought this was the end, but wars were constantly being launched, and the world he wanted to see seemed to never come.

Until the war fifteen years ago, this brutal war of aggression initiated by a country he trusted completely destroyed him, and he knew that what he had always done was unjust.

‌Disgusting, filthy, the ugliest of all things he hated.

He was just an executioner whitewashed by a politician, and he couldn't allow himself to live like this, so he told me, and he persisted.

I don't know how to reply him. I have always only read books, and the only brave thing I have done in my life is to escape everything and come to the South Pole.

Many people in Antarctica stood up and held a protest against the launch of this war in the severe cold (Note 3). I stood in the crowd, holding a sign of [no war] with trembling hands, and looked up at the coming polar night , The cold snow almost buried me.

It seems that all we can do is to protest, and of course it will be of no use in the end.

When I was looking through his suicide note, I saw him and I wrote: [Antarctica must be very good, although it is cold, cold, and never sunny, but there must be no wars there, and there is a pure land there, I hope you ‌I want to bring my memory, the memory of an ugly war/war/criminal to this pure land to pollute it. 】

But in fact it was not like this, Antarctica was as cold as he imagined, but not as pure as he imagined.

Everyone who comes to this pure land has a grand ideal of saving mankind and alleviating the global crisis.

We carefully documented the data, marking the skin of whales and the rings of penguins, year after year making sure that the creatures had grown to 50 percent of their original numbers with age, I have watched with anxiety a glacier of more than a thousand feet annihilated on the sea within an hour, like an alarm clock that is broadcast regularly at every meeting. Roaring - bad climate, global warming, human crisis.

And they always listened perfunctorily and drowsily, and in the next TV screen, they justly took out this thing to raise the flag, and at the same time continued to be ambitious. Plan wars that can pollute a large area again and again.

Regardless of internal or external, it has nothing to do with nonsense, only about their tenure/term and personal interests.

I can guarantee that one of these guys can tell what the average global temperature has risen in the last year.

My friend, you may be tired of reading this and think I am a long-winded old man, but please allow me to continue on in a weary and languid manner.

I was born in an environment known for individual freedom and democracy, where it seemed that everyone's freedom of behavior was respected.

Making sacrifices for the group is what individual heroes need to do. Most people only need to pursue their own interests and achievements throughout their lives.

But friends, you and I are very clear that human beings are a species that continues as a group, and no species can pursue freedom in isolation. When groups do not exist, freedom will be meaningless.

Only our "heroes" can do it.

The group value we pursue does not receive any recognition in society, just like a solitary whale seeing an impending volcanic eruption or tsunami, but can only warn other whales with a strange frequency When disaster strikes, they don't understand, and they don't bother to listen to the advice of our strange whale.

They are going to pursue a sea fish, a clump of krill, volcanoes and tsunamis in front of them. They are not important, this is the job of heroes.

It’s like I’m living in Sator (Note 4), an absurd place, entertained to death, narrow-minded, and heading for disintegration.

The cost of the observatory faced the possibility of another budget cut last year, simply because our generation of leaders did not believe in global warming and the greenhouse effect.

Many times I feel in a trance that what I do is not a great work to save mankind, but a product of political manipulation—just like my friend.

I envy you, my friends, that you are not fighting alone, your group knows the responsibilities you bear, and there is no escape from taking responsibility with you.

You are not [Heroes], but [Vanguards].

At Taishan Station, every young man who asked me for guidance had a bright and shining attitude in his eyes. How amazing, the snow in Antarctica is so pure, it made me think my friend was watching When he sent me on board after watching "Titanic", he smiled and waved and shouted that he was about to hit an iceberg. Notice that there was Ruth with me on board, and her eyes were as bright as that.

Species will eventually become extinct, and so will human beings. My friends, I believe you and I are absolutely convinced of this, this is the doomed fate of all living things, just like human beings will eventually die.

But we can decide when, where, and how we die.

I hope that in the future, we can see us huddled together in the ice and snow to die in the cold, and I also hope to see the last two people on earth sticking spears into each other's hearts in the devastated ruins in order to compete for prey.

Forgive me, my friends, I chose you out of desperation, I, you did what arrogant gods and human beings do.

There is energy in the body that can turn the world upside down. It is like it was born for my desires and desires. After particleization, it can produce unprecedented meteorological and biological influences, and let it fall into the hands of others. hand, as if I were to write the ending.

This is the first time that I have used my knowledge in such a sinister way to cool down the planet and destroy the human race.

I might be really crazy.

But I still have a little room for my madness, I have researched creatures that can adapt to this situation, and then selected you, added your genes to their suspension, and let them test you, ‌Whether they can become the group of people who continue the spark.

My friends, please hate me as much as you want, I take my rifle/gun like a vodka, and drive out the people in the house who have been paralyzed by my obedience for two months. In a world of ice and snow, order them to take away any clothing and food.

It’s funny to say that even though I have suffered all kinds of inhumane tortures from them, my request to obtain the freedom of a gun for self-defense is still respected at this moment. In the eyes of these people who guard me, wanting a gun It's not a big deal, after all, they didn't think that I, a frail scientist, had the courage to resist, so they gave me the freedom to defend myself.

This may be the only benefit that freedom brings me, although this freedom breaks the rules of Antarctica.

I held a gun, and the creature I taught next to me squatted in the snow, and I quietly waited for this group of human beings to gather in the snow to keep warm, and die coldly as I thought.

And now I am back in my room to write this fax for you, to put the final stop to this terrible conspiracy that I have been planning since August 10th.

Immediately, that creature will reach your territory...

(Supplement: I made sauerkraut according to your method, but it failed. God, your dish making is really harder than biochemical experiments. I was going to prepare it for you as a cold winter strategic reserve, but for safety’s sake , I recommend that you take these two jars of sauerkraut.)

Your friend—Edmund.