As a former imperial soldier, Han Wensheng was supposed to live and die with the empire, but when he chose to accept this extremely heavy responsibility, the value of his mission was far higher than everything he believed in in the past.
The morning of January 1, 88 AD.
Han Wensheng, who had just heard that there were alien infected people in Aisinvar and caused a riot, had no time to care about the safety of his family, so he was urgently dispatched to the newly completed Turaya Experimental Base and served as the first Chief Inspector here.
The weather was very bad that day. The Turaya base near Ogu Bay was covered with heavy snow. From a distance, it looked like a married bride. It stood there gracefully and quietly. An artificial neutron star core had just been activated.
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With the roar and dazzling light, the artificial sun gradually rose, and at the same time, the Turaya base on the ground began to slowly set.
Han Wensheng, who was standing on the Vail-class strategic deployment ship, waited silently. The group of staff behind him also looked solemn and solemn.
It took twenty-seven hours for the entire Turaya base, which was perfectly reproduced in accordance with the city-state of Twilight Sun, to finally complete its final settlement. Then the sun rose high and the sound of machinery rang out.
"Turaya has completed startup, please confirm the final certificate."
After Han Wensheng heard this, he started the deployment and loading of the battleship he was riding on. Tens of thousands of men in white, code-named 0, followed Han Wensheng and landed in the empty and humid city of Twilight Sun.
The coldness after the snow melted made Han Wensheng realize clearly that all this was not a scam in his current memory, but had really begun.
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Ten days later, the first batch of thirteen thousand residents appeared in the streets of the city-state of Dusk. These people woke up as the morning sun rose as usual.
They are the first to be mature, as immature as newborn babies. Not only do their memory systems retain a very small infrastructure,
Even their body's basic immune system is very fragile.
This batch of 13,000 people were completely created from embryonic culture dishes. They can only survive for fifteen days. After fifteen days, the supervisors will forcibly recover the specimens that did not die within the scheduled time. At the same time,
The genetic data of these individuals with strong vitality will also be retained, and their unstable information will be collected and organized to confirm whether alienation is beneficial or harmful.
Thirteen thousand people doesn't sound like a lot.
Especially after they are placed in a city with a scale of millions, it becomes even more insignificant.
As the Chief Inspector, Han Wensheng was not directly involved in Turaya's plan. In fact, he was more like a bystander, only responsible for supervising all of this. Therefore, Han Wensheng was in the first batch of Chengdu
During the fifteen days of investment, I lived as freely as a traveler in the city every day.
On the morning of January 17, 1988, the first batch of animals performed well. Their restrained memories allowed them to enjoy every day peacefully without any sense of crisis.
But this is only the result of data collection, not a real experience.
At least for Han Wensheng, the first days were really painful.
With countless secrets, he saw that their appearance was no different from ordinary people, but their thoughts were tightly locked by an invisible cage, turning them into existences like frogs at the bottom of a well, and they did not care about the real world.
How is it? In other words, they are like slaves of thought and can never know what they are encountering.
Regarding this point, Han Wensheng had many discussions with the old man after choosing to accept it happily.
Han Wensheng's condition is "equivalent exchange". Since you have chosen me to be the overall person in charge of the Turaya Project, please do not hide anything from me. I want to know the truth of all this.
The old man did not use the words Han Wensheng's father said to excuse him, he was very calm.
The most basic truth is 100 years.
"One hundred years?" Han Wensheng roughly knew part of it when he joined Turaya, but he didn't expect it to be such a precise number.
"Yes, a hundred years ago. This is the result of data collection and comparison. Human science and technology has developed to this level, and a lot of logical data that used to rely on deduction can now be replaced by accurate collection."
"Then...isn't there still a long way to go? We..." Han Wensheng hesitated, and he suddenly realized that all this would not be that simple.
The old man's smile was very gentle, and he replied: "I understand what you mean. One hundred years is indeed not a short time for human beings, but for the entire history of civilization, it is as hasty as fireworks, and it only happens in the blink of an eye.
But I think you may have misunderstood the concept of a hundred years."
Han Wensheng shuddered, and a chill ran down his spine. The more possibilities that came to his mind, the more they became worse and worse, so much so that he didn't really want to hear the results now.
But the old man still said it truthfully: "One hundred years is relative to the entire human race. It does not mean that the disaster will begin after one hundred years. In fact, the disaster has already happened, but it is still very slight.
Not even a dark cloud has appeared yet, but if we really do nothing, then in a hundred years, the last human being will disappear from this planet, and only insignificant traces of human civilization will be left, and even
The possibilities that other civilizations have discovered and studied do not exist.”
Han Wensheng understood. He never expected that it would reach this point, but why are the empire and the coalition still starting a war over some groundless frame-ups? Could it be that they!?
No……
Han Wensheng immediately interrupted his straightforward thoughts, because if he, a latecomer, could understand the meaninglessness of this war, wouldn't those who secretly lead the Turaya project not notice?
But they did it anyway, and threw countless lives into the fire and burned them up regardless of the cost.
Han Wensheng did not understand the meaning behind this behavior for the time being, but he could vaguely understand that this war was definitely not simply because the empire denied human rights.
"So, how bad has the current situation become?" Han Wensheng couldn't help but ask after thinking for a while.
The old man took out a special crystal plate, looked at the data and replied: "The current situation is pretty good. The first batch of people to be quarantined have all been classified, and they will be fully completed in the Cerberus Dome by the end of next month.
After the settlement, the disaster is expected to occur nineteen years later."
Cerberus!
Han Wensheng couldn't help but tense up. The old man noticed this, he looked at Han Wensheng and said: "Although none of us want to accept it, this is the status quo, and let's not talk about it so far, just take yourself as an example.
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"Me?" Han Wensheng was really stunned this time. If it's about other people, no matter how intimate it is, it will be painful at most. But if the suffering falls on himself, the meaning will completely change.
That will become an ordeal.
"Yes, you, your personal data has been accurate. Do you want to hear it?" The old man gave Han Wensheng a choice.
Knowing that the date of death must be accepted from birth, but when everything becomes normal and extends to the point where there is no concept, it doesn't matter so much.
But now... Han Wensheng feels like a prisoner on death row, and the judge is asking him for his opinion on whether he wants to know the date of his death.
Han Wensheng hesitated for a long time, and finally his answer was: "No need."
The old man nodded, restored the crystal plate, and then placed the shrunken crystal core in front of Han Wensheng.
"Consider it a gift, although I'm not sure you will like it."
Han Wensheng glanced at the crystal core on the table. After hesitating for a while, he still chose to accept it.
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On January 23, 1988, the first batch of Type 1 samples was completely destroyed.
The city-state of Dusk has returned to its empty and lonely state.
On this day, Han Wensheng sat in the room for a long time, holding a crystal core in his hand, which was a gift given to him by the old man.
In the afternoon, Han Wensheng decided to personally check out the entire internal process of Turaya.
At around two o'clock, Han Wensheng came to the place nicknamed "The Fishing Ground".
This is the origin of the basic embryo model. A large number of humanoid embryos that look like pieces of meat are salvaged ashore, and then individually loaded into culture modules and transported to the hatchery.
The principles of the fishery are top-level secrets. Even Han Wensheng, as the Chief Inspector, cannot know it now. Therefore, he can only watch silently, watching these things like latex puppets produced in a factory being continuously fished ashore, and then
And transported them away in batches.
After checking the fishery for about half an hour, Han Wensheng chose to leave because he couldn't bear the filth, darkness and smell of the place.
His next stop was the incubator.
The incubation room is the second ring of Turaya. The genetic sequences of all residents of the original city-state of Wunri are stored here. They have been classified and managed according to intensity, and are quantitatively cultured in batches and models.
At present, all the first-type Yuanben embryos have been destroyed, and the second-type embryos have just been put on the agenda, so the current incubation room seems a bit empty. When you look around, there are only densely packed storage cells similar to a honeycomb matrix.
They are tightly arranged on the surrounding walls of the incubation room.
After staying in the incubator for a while, Han Wensheng felt an inexplicable chill. Although he was standing alone in the light, Han Wensheng could clearly feel that millions of eyes were quietly observing him in the dark. This
It felt really uncomfortable, so Han Wensheng only stayed in the incubation room for less than ten minutes and left in a hurry.
His next stop is the hatchery.
The hatchery is located below the incubator, which is a huge breeding farm covering an area of about nineteen square kilometers.
After Yuanben embryos come into contact with the ancestral DNA sequence, they will be placed in a petri dish in the hatchery for cultivation. However, this form of cultivation is not a growth process, but a process of replicating and carving the genetic sequence.
The basic humanoid embryos salvaged from the fishing grounds will have unique appearances here, and will eventually be reproduced into perfect puppets.
But these puppets are just a pile of flesh and bones, without souls.
Then, where Han Wensheng will go next is the last link of Turaya - recovery.