One desire after another is churning, one desire after another is shouting.
Different people, different wishes, different desires and hesitations.
With sadness, with anger, with hope, with determination.
All the emotions are resonating with Yin En. He is feeling all the emotions at this moment. The indescribable and complex longing is so similar to him.
Imprisoned on this land, surrounded by souls bound by gravity, countries that clearly possess powerful technology but do not want to take a step forward, and instead launch wars against other countries...each of them makes him think again.
It's sadness and anger.
but……
‘He’ can’t see it anymore.
His blond hair turned into dull gray, and the sturdy man with sky-blue eyes turned into an old man. But he still couldn't open the door to the outside world. The Sequoia Base was like a cage, locking him in this comfort.
But the underground space is gradually decaying.
Yes, it is peaceful and comfortable here.
Yes, he holds a high position here.
Yes, he has great power and the reverence of the people.
Yes, he has reached the pinnacle of life and can do anything.
Except what he wants to do.
and……
He is dying.
[After I die, won’t it be okay to send my body out of the ruins?]
[Great Elder... Your body itself is our most important legacy. What if an external mutant creature devours your body and obtains the bloodline secret key? If nothing else, your attached brain must be recycled.
of]
It is a normal fact that the corpse itself is also property. The bodies of the Sequoia people need to be specially processed before they can be buried, because the various nano-vaccines, special immune viruses and photoresin symbiotic bacteria in their bodies are all from the pre-era era.
Once the technology that has survived from this period is exposed to the outside world, although it cannot be said to be an ecological disaster, it will definitely have adverse effects.
The attached brain that inherits the memory must be removed after death and the memory uploaded.
But for the Sequoia people, removing the attached brain is equivalent to removing half of their souls. What do they do with that incomplete body?
[Ok, I see……]
No one could hear the despair in the great elder's tone.
And decisively.
So, two years later, the automatic production line was suddenly damaged due to an accident.
Immediately afterwards, the ecological park's restraint lock was destroyed.
Two abnormal crises have made everyone in the entire Sequoia base anxious. The automatic production line is okay. After all, I have skills in my brain. It is not difficult to re-manufacture or repair. At most, it is a waste of time and requires mining and smelting metal.
But the ecological park was destroyed and the heterogeneous creatures inside were mixed together, enough to create a second-level ecological crisis here!
While dealing with this huge turmoil, no one noticed that some extremely confidential genetic samples were taken away from the laboratory deep in the ecological park.
Then, as if bad things weren't enough, one after another, some Sequoia people disappeared.
They suddenly disappeared one night, making no sound, making everyone extremely nervous, thinking that they were alien aliens in the ecological park and individuals left outside, and were now attacking them.
Members of the armored escort patrolled day and night, but people continued to disappear.
Until one day, a person was discovered by the escort while leaving. However, this person had lost his will, his mind was completely disordered, and he was speaking garbled words, as if he was completely crazy.
After detailed medical examination, everyone was shocked to find that the attached brain located behind the brain stem of this person had mutated. This semi-psionic slug, which was supposed to be extremely stable, actually began to devour the human brain and attempt to replace it.
There is a source behind all this. After careful investigation, the Sequoia people discovered with horror that all the missing people disappeared at the other end of the H-55 underwater channel, which is the source of the viewing river and the power pack cooling channel.
a small tributary of.
In the water purification plant there, there is a hill made of corpses, and a small biological laboratory that has been established for a long time.
Among them, many instruments are top secret and only exist in pre-era laboratories that require key cards to pass through. There is only one person who can open the laboratory without applying.
That is their leader, Great Elder Sequoia.
[What are you doing?! Madara Qunsen, why are you doing this!?]
[eternal life]
[Are you crazy?! This is not immortality at all. You just turned yourself into an echo. Even if you can really burn your soul into the brain-attached psychic network and become a mirror... you will also become a brain-attached person.
A collection of wills, not you now!]
[I do not care]
[Wha...what?]
[I said, I don't care]
I don't care if I'm human or not, I don't care if this is morally wrong or not, and I don't care if this will destroy the ecological balance of the Sequoia Base.
I don't care about you, nor myself.
Life, soul, memory, self, these things are all bullshit, rubbish, and will only produce despair and pain. Can the Hive Network carry the complete me? It’s ridiculous, so what if it can’t? Only you boring idiots can
You are so entangled in these trivial matters, no wonder you are still contentedly staying in this underground tomb.
I can't see it, which is a pity, but at least the new life can leave here with an eternal body and an immortal soul.
Then, go see the stars.
The white cocoon of flesh and blood wrapped in fluorescent crystal clusters and living metal is stirring, as if it wants to reach out and cross the ruins deep in the earth, across the layers of rock formations and the endlessly churning sea.
It wants to reach out and touch, touch the real wind, touch the clouds in the sky.
To touch the stars above the clouds and the sky.
This is its desire, the desire of the one who created it, and indeed of all those who have become a part of it.
Those who say they don't want to leave the base, even though they don't really think about it, have the most sincere desire deep in their hearts.
Even apes can look up at the stars, let alone humans?
Intense emotions, whether it was despair or a spirit of awakening, struck Yin En's heart.
Was that a calm statement, or an angry filial piety? I don't know, the phantom of the past swept through my mind, causing severe emotional shock.
It also resonated with the young man from the bottom of his heart.
[We are the same kind...we are the same...]
A voice sounded, with sincere emotions: [We all yearn for the distance and see things that we cannot usually see...]
[Relics are a prison, life is a prison, morality is a prison, the body is also a prison, isn’t the sky also a prison?]
[We have to break free from the cage and break the shackles... We are the same... I can know that you are also the same person as me...]
The invisible Hive Mind stretched out its spiritual energy and flesh and blood tentacles, and rushed towards Yin En, who was standing there, as if it was a hug.
From the chopped flesh humanoids, there were silk structures that looked like nerves and blood vessels extending out, stretching forward with a spore-like texture, trying to climb on the young man's face.
[Let us unite... we will become one, immortal one...]
[Let us break free from the prison together...]
But these tentacle spores were cut off by a long sword without an edge.
Yin En held up his sword silently. He was obviously still immersed in the mental shock created by the Hive Mind. It was an extremely special psychic technique that relied on empathy and resonance. As long as there were people with slightly similar thoughts, they would
Gradually it begins to erode.
No, it's not erosion or parasitism.
But contribution.
The Hive Mind shares everything it has with Yin En. It is not an attack or hostility. As long as they have the same mood and the same resonance, they are one and they are one will... If Yin En's spirit is enough
If he is firm and can eliminate the influence of other soul fragments, he can become an insect nest.
Become the true Hive Mind.
But he still raised his sword, and the light golden sword light cut off all these tentacles and the beginning of a road of destiny.
"Ahem..."
The young man raised his head, panting awkwardly, staring at the giant white cocoon in front of him, and coughed out breath that smelled of blood.
There, a huge brain was lamenting silently. It couldn't figure out why, but the life in front of it was so similar to it. They had the same dream and the same desire. It even felt ashamed because the soul of the young man in front of it was so similar.
The madness in the depths can even outweigh its persistence that lasts for thousands of years.
So, why?
The answer is actually very simple.
"We do have similarities, but we are different."
His eyes were like stars. Yin En's whole body was filled with green-gold light. There was no anger, no sympathy, no ridicule in his eyes, only a hint of compassion.
The young man raised his sword solemnly, and the inscriptions on the Chongyuan Iron Sword lit up one by one. The light golden light shined uniquely under the silver-blue and green radiation.
Yin En took a deep breath, as if he was communicating with the hive mind in front of him, or talking to himself.
He said: "Because I know the truth, I know what the future will be like, and I am the person living in the 'future'."
He said: "In the world thousands of years from now, human beings will still repeat boring wars, going back and forth under the sun, and they will never tire of it."
He said: "I am not eager. I am convinced. I do not want to touch the stars, I must find the stars."
He said: "The Hive Mind, no matter who you are, whose fragments or new life, whether you believe it or not, I don't care, I will tell you."
"There are no stars anymore outside."
"Our world is wrapped in a prison of stars. The sky is pitch black. There is no guidance there. There is no heaven or distance. There is no glory worth being excited about. The starry sky you imagined did not exist from the beginning."
I know this and you don't, you just imagine it.
You may be confused or at a loss.
And I have decided and made up my mind to still move forward and climb.
Saying this, Yin En actually laughed. He showed a smile that was heartfelt, extremely cheerful, but enough to be called crazy: "But so what? I don't care about these things, no matter what they look like on the outside. Are there any space monsters or subspace natural disasters? Only boring idiots would care about these minutiae."