Su didn't seem to be surprised at all by the old man's words.
While observing the layout of the laboratory, he said nonchalantly: "If I guessed correctly, you knew about us through that wolf, right?"
The old man straightened up, looked back at Su with some surprise, and said, "Stranger, it seems that you are much sharper than I thought, and you have profound insights into biochemical technology.
Yes, I learned this through talking to the children.
I learned about your arrival through communication.
I know it is very inefficient to create these children, but after all, you have seen that the resources here are really limited, and we can only create these most elementary children."
Su's eyebrows wrinkled slightly again, thinking of those ferocious wolves whose whole bodies were filled with unnatural feelings, she felt very uncomfortable with the children's names.
But now Su is more or less well-informed and knows that most of the scientists at the top of the world are a combination of geniuses and madmen.
To put it in layman's terms, most powerful scientists have quirks.
Regarding this point, Su has already been fully proved by Helen.
The old man didn't seem to be a genius like Helen, and the degree of strangeness was slightly less.
Or the converse argument can also be established.
The old man extended his right hand to Su and said: "I am Cornierland.
As you can see, I am the village chief of this village and the host of this laboratory.
Welcome to the Ice Throne."
Su looked at the old man's hand, stretched out his hand to hold it, and said, "Su."
"Su has a very strange name.
But no matter what, I would like to thank you for your trust in an old man."
Cornier raised his right hand, and then, right in front of Su, the hand that was originally skinny and brown was covered with The old-spotted right hand suddenly swelled, and each of the five fingers opened a suction cup.
In the center of the suction cup was a large mouth covered with several layers of sharp teeth.
The tips of the numerous sharp teeth could be seen to be dark brown in color, and they were obviously dramatic. poison.
"This is something an old man uses to protect himself."
Cornier's terrifying right hand gradually returned to normal.
"Yes, this is a means of self-protection."
Su agreed with a smile, and continued: "You only used him for self-protection, which is a very wise and lucky decision."
The smile on Cornier's face immediately stiffened, but then returned to normal.
He walked to the side of the laboratory and pressed a row of shapes in succession.
The wall suddenly lit up and turned into a display screen divided into more than a dozen areas.
What was displayed inside was this building that evolved from a military base.
Every corner of the village.
However, Cornier did not find what he was looking for on the display screen.
He shrugged and said somewhat helplessly: "Su, it seems that your companion is also an excellent concealment master.
Now you can invite her to come over and talk together.
Let’s talk” A few minutes later, Su and Madeline were sitting side by side on the comfortable couch, looking at Conil opposite.
This is Cornier's private resting place after his experiments.
Although it is not big, it is neatly and warmly decorated and has good red wine and cream biscuits.
In this era, it can be called luxury and enjoyment.
The young man whose treasured pistol was taken away by Su, Ruby, temporarily acted as a waiter, bringing black tea with milk and sugar, then exited, and carefully closed the door.
Su and Madeline were both extremely smart people, and Cornier was obviously not a fool either.
When smart people are together, conversation can be very difficult or very easy.
The situation between the three of them was obviously the latter, so after a while, the two sides had already communicated the basic situation.
"So, you are indeed here for the Ice Throne Project.
Being able to cross the snow-capped mountains in the radiation cloud is really an admirable strength."
Cornier praised while throwing a cookie into his mouth.
After chewing hard, he asked a question that Su and Madeline couldn't answer: "Then what do you two want to gain when you come to this isolated world?"
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Yes, what exactly do you want to get?
There were only two reasons why Su and Madeline appeared here after a arduous journey.
One is Pandora's vague guidance, and the other is the call from somewhere that both of them have felt.
There seemed to be something here, calling them to come.
That's all.
Neither Su nor Madeline knew anything about what they were looking for in the Ice Throne.
The silence in the break room surprised and delighted Cornier.
But he carefully hid his joy for fear of being discovered by the person opposite.
He has discovered that these two unusually young and handsome people have a calmness and solemnity that is incompatible with their appearance.
And the fact that he was able to climb over snow-capped mountains covered with radiation clouds reminded Cornier all the time that the two young men in front of him were definitely not easy targets to mess with.
Cornier drank some black tea to moisten his throat and said, "The Ice Throne is actually a project, a top-secret project.
The core of the entire project is a magical biological organ."
The Ice Throne is one of the five projects classified as top secret by the Federation in the old era.
It receives billions of research funds every year and has a research team of more than a thousand people working on it.
Based on dozens of times the number of guards and peripheral service personnel, and with the support of a large amount of funds, a small city was quickly built where the Ice Throne project was located, and its scale continued to expand.
On the eve of the war, it was already a city housing 50,000 people.
The project leader was Dr.
Rochester, and Cornier was the doctor's youngest assistant at the time.
Since Rochester is also the person in charge of two other projects and devotes most of his energy to other projects, he will not appear in the Ice Throne for more than one month in a year, so in fact Cornier He is the real person in charge of the Ice Throne.
Every time Rochester comes, he just checks the progress of the project and points out the directions for improvement.
Project Ice Throne had begun ten years before the war broke out.
However, ten years of research have made little progress.
Not to mention the project's ultimate goal of restoring the complete original life form through the mysterious organ, even figuring out the most basic function of that organ is still far away.
After a full decade of research, they could not even complete the genetic sequencing of the organ.
The genes of the mysterious organ are delicate and varied, consisting of as many as a thousand gene chains intertwined together.
Its complexity exceeds the genes of any known organism by several orders of magnitude.
Moreover, gene chains are combined in a way similar to a code.
Without first cracking the code, it is impossible to parse out individual gene fragments.
However, simulation calculations found that with the computing level of mankind at that time, the time required to crack this kind of code would be calculated in trillions of years.
But there is always no shortage of geniuses among humans.
Since quantitative analysis is not feasible, then qualitative analysis will be used.
After abstract reasoning, exhaustive research, and even direct injection of organ cells into the human body to observe the reaction, a gene fragment was finally successfully restored.
Looking back on the miraculous process of obtaining this gene fragment, it is more of a miracle than an achievement.
After successfully restoring the gene fragment, Dr.
Rochester hurried over and took the genetic sample.
A month later, the Doctor held a press conference and announced the existence of the first spell-like ability and the first ability in human history, the flame.
The era of rapid human evolution marked by ability began here.
The day after Dr.
Rochester disclosed the existence of his abilities, the war broke out without warning.
Under the rising mushroom clouds, the old era ended.
"It seems that this is the organ we should be looking for.
What does it look like and which part of the organ is it," Su said.
Cornier smiled bitterly, spread his hands, and said: "I have to admit that even though I have been studying it for ten years, I still know nothing about its function and role.
It does not belong to any known species.
Its origin is a top-level secret.
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I don't have the authority to know this.
However, there was an office of Dr.
Rochester in the research base at that time.
Maybe you can find something there.
After so many years, you don't know.
What’s left there.”
Madeline looked at Cornier and said, "You have a long life."
Cornier smiled and said: "Indeed.
I am close to one hundred and thirty years old this year.
You see, since I can install a few self-protection gadgets on myself, it is not too difficult to extend my life.
What's more, in an era with abilities, as long as nothing happens, people with abilities can live longer than in the past.
It's a pity that if I lived in the old era. , I don’t know how many big people will come to beg me to perform surgery on them.
According to ordinary people’s thinking, it is to transform them into humanoid monsters.
In fact, as long as they can live for a few more decades and do not lose the joy of being human, I don’t think they will.
I will be troubled by the question of whether I am a human being in terms of my biological structure.”
Even in the age of capable people, increasing lifespan is still a fatal temptation.
However, in turbulent times, there are very few people who can avoid accidents.
"What's the situation in the Ice Throne now?
Why are you not in the research base, but choosing to live here?
The research base won't even be able to withstand a nuclear explosion."
Su asked two key questions.
"The underground research base can withstand the direct bombardment of multi-million-ton nuclear bombs.
What's more, during the war, we were not directly hit by nuclear bombs.
It was just that the nuclear explosion destroyed all roads leading to the outside world, and the radiation blocked the mountains and The sea, this area was closed off, and the project continued normally for several months after the nuclear war ended.
Three teams of people were sent out to try to get in touch with the outside world and find out what happened.
However, no news came back from everyone sent out.
At this time, the crisis in the base began to appear.
There was not much water and food stored.
It’s only enough to support it for a month.
Fortunately, except for a few people, other researchers are not aware of this situation and they are still working.”
"Where's the energy?"
Madeline asked.
"There are two underground nuclear power plants that provide energy for the entire base.
Because experiments often consume a large amount of electricity, the stored fuel rods are enough to provide power for five hundred years," Cornier explained.
"Then why are you staying here?
This is not like a base that can carry out plans like the Ice Throne."
Su Rao had a moment of humor, but found that the joke was a bit cold.
Cornier sighed deeply, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to become deeper.
He said slowly: "The crisis happened unconsciously.
At the beginning, there were just a few researchers.
Their common symptoms were high fever and weakness.
This was because the best doctors in the federation were at the base at that time, and many of the scientists working on the biological projects were medical experts themselves.
However, after a few days, the sick people did not improve at all, but there were more than a dozen people who fell ill.
Individuals fell down the same way. symptoms, but the doctors were helpless and couldn't even find the cause of the disease.
Just like that, more and more people fell ill.
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By the third week, the sick personnel at the base accounted for one-third of the total. 1.
Isolation, disinfection, independent ventilation, all conceivable measures were used, but there was still no way to control the spread of the plague.
More and more people fell down, but the cause of the disease was still not found until one day. , the computer inadvertently recorded an incredible video from an automated microscope that was testing blood samples."
Cornier's face was full of shock and horror.
It was obvious that his mind was completely immersed in the horrific memories: "Those were originally the most ordinary blood cells, but one of them suddenly split into dozens of cells.
Alien cells, and then these brand-new cells moved at a hundred times the speed of ordinary biological cells, found the normal blood cells around them, and began to engulf them.
Incredibly, the time it took for them to engulf normal cells that were dozens of times their own volume was only a short time.
In less than a minute, after devouring their prey, they change their appearance and become no different from ordinary blood cells.
Unless the most advanced large-scale genetic detector is used, there is no way to detect that they have actually transformed into someone else.
A kind of cell.
And this process will be repeated every hour or two.
In other words, those researchers who fell ill a few days ago actually have heterogeneous cells in their bodies, and they have turned into another type. a creature" A word suddenly came to Su's mind: "intruder."
An imperceptible paleness flashed across his face.
"For an unknown threat, the first reaction of mankind should be to eliminate it immediately."
Madeline commented lightly.
Cornier didn't notice anything strange about Su.
He nodded to agree with Madeline's view and said, "Yes.
My decision at that time was to inject poison gas into the isolation area through the ventilation system.
Those who fell ill had actually died.
They turned into another kind of creature, and their lethargy and weakness were all faked to show us.
However, just when the staff who were not sick started to carry out my orders, those guys somehow felt the threat and suddenly all jumped. got up and rushed out of the quarantine area.”
The research base turned into a hell in an instant.
The original patients suddenly had incredible speed and beast-like strength.
They easily tore apart the few guards and began to sweep through the entire underground base.
Cornier escaped along the secret passage.
Fortunately, the alien creatures transformed from humans did not chase him out of the base.
For some unknown reason, the alien creature's activity range has never left the one kilometer range of the research base.
In addition to the research and staff in the underground bases, there are tens of thousands of military personnel, service personnel, and family members of staff living in the above-ground cities.
Half of them died from the radiation and cold that came with the war, but the remaining half survived tenaciously.
Cornier was not the only one to escape from the research base, so the survivors on the ground also knew about the drastic changes that had taken place in the underground base and began to disperse and flee.
Decades pass quickly.
The original survivors also entered a process of rapid mutation and evolution, and gradually adapted to the new environment.
They established settlements and discovered new edible crops.
Small-scale water treatment technology has also gradually developed.
After all, it is located near a mountainous area and has a large amount of underground water sources with only slight radiation.
After solving the problems of food and water, the population gradually developed.
And the alien creatures that occupied the underground research base also began to show outstanding intelligence.
They took out medicines and other supplies stored in the base and exchanged food with people in nearby settlements.
Later, these alien creatures even began to sell electricity.
Anyway, the electricity generated by the two nuclear power plants far exceeded the normal needs of the base.
We have to admit that humans are extremely adaptable creatures.
When they were truly neighbors with intelligent races, they did not insist on their position as the masters of all things.
A group of smart and bold people gained the trust of the alien creatures and made a fortune by trading with the alien creatures in the research base.
They then monopolized this kind of trade and quickly built a powerful armed force with the accumulated wealth.
These people have become the most powerful force in the area and consider themselves the agents of the alien creatures on the ground.
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These people call themselves Gray Eagles.
Cornier wandered around for a whole year, but could not find a way out of this country, so he occupied this abandoned military radar station, hiding his identity, and continued his research.
He was unwilling and did not dare to approach the research base, so he continued to live here.
When the long and heavy narrative ended, it was daybreak.
"If you want to get that organ, you have to find the master."
When speaking the word master, Cornier obviously struggled and hesitated.
"Lord" Su felt that this word made him feel uncomfortable.
Cornier buried his face deeply in his hands and said with a trembling voice: "Yes, Lord.
In order to study the function of the organ, Rochester used the human body as a container to load the organ.
The code name of this container is Lord .
If you want to get the organ, you must find the master and kill it.
Promise me, young man, find the master, kill it and give it freedom.
After all, it was my son
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