Chapter 4: End. The Fourth Type of "Creature" (Part 1)

November 11, 2276

6:00 a.m.

Alpha opened her eyes, her body covered with fine beads of sweat. She had only rested for two hours in a house provided by Ada nearby, and started warming up at 4:00 a.m.

Quasimodo stood aside, clasping his hands together like praying. Alpha stood up, and the air around her seemed to be shaking.

Quasimodo felt that Alpha had released her power, and this fierce and terrifying power was about to burst out. Alpha's expression was solemn, and she nodded to Quasimodo.

"Let's walk over slowly. It's not far from 10th Department."

Quasimodo thought, and Alpha looked at the Capitol Hill in the center. This day is coming, and the fate of nearly a hundred years will come to an end today.

Alpha knew very well that it would be difficult for Gene to defeat her this time.

The back figure that she had been watching since birth was finally turning around today. Alpha didn't expect that Gene would agree to fight with her so easily.

A helicopter slowly flew over, and then slowly landed in front of Alpha and Quasimodo.

"I'll take you there, girl."

Tang Rao felt a little fear the moment she saw Alpha. She could clearly feel that she could feel the energy radiating from Alpha's body surface even though she was a few meters away from him. It was amazing.

"No need, Teacher Tang Rao, I'll just walk over."

"If you go like this..."

Alpha walked calmly, Quasimodo nodded slightly, Tang Rao could only let the helicopter return automatically, and then followed Alpha.

Looking at Alpha now, Tang Rao's mind, those past events emerged one after another.

In the past, Gene had stood in front of Alpha countless times, but today, Gene might not be able to stand in front of Alpha anymore.

"It would be nice if we could sit down and have a good talk."

Tang Rao said easily, and Alpha just smiled slightly.

Tang Rao knew it was impossible, because Gene never said it, and Alpha never asked, because the two trusted each other very much.

But in Tang Rao's opinion, some things might be better to say, but it's useless to say anything now, Gene has promised Alpha that he will have a good fight with her.

The senior executives of the Operations Department will be present, and some members of Congress have also received notices.

Capitol Hill has become lively, and the other guys are still reinforcing and arranging the venue. Rose and Gu Yi will serve as the protectors and repairers of the venue throughout the whole process.

People always come to the wall unconsciously, and the desire to break the wall and see the mood on the other side of the wall will become stronger and stronger as time goes by.

"How old are you this year, Alpha."

"88."

Tang Rao sighed helplessly, it has been nearly a century, and she hugged Alpha with one hand.

"I will stand by you this time and teach that bastard a good lesson."

Alpha smiled knowingly.

6:11 AM

Gene sat quietly in the congress hall, with no one around him. There was a large meeting place underground, where the secretaries' competition would be held every year.

This started more than ten years ago. Some TV stations would broadcast the whole process live, and the section chiefs would explain it on the side.

Gene sat quietly in the middle, on a blue chair, with one hand on his chin and one hand holding a cigarette, waiting for Alpha to come.

The past scenes kept flowing in Gene's mind, and Alpha's last expression that night appeared in his mind. She seemed to be angrily questioning why you did nothing.

Gene couldn't answer this question. What could he do, and what was the use of doing it.

Because no matter what he did, everything would come back with the passage of time.

The same was true for the society in the past. The larger the society, the later it would collapse, but it could not escape the fate of collapse and then rebuilding the society.

No system is completely reasonable, and no law is perfect. Everything that humans have been exploring for thousands of years has actually reached its end, as early as 200 years ago.

It is very difficult to balance development and stability. It is almost impossible to make humans live relatively freely and make society relatively stable.

For the development of science and technology, Brilliant City allows freedom within a certain range and does not interfere with the birth of science and technology and various academic disciplines, but the birth of these things often splits the social level, and if you want social stability, you must have a unified voice.

Freedom and despotism, two opposing and completely different ways, exist in Brilliant City, so problems have occurred frequently in recent years, but if this is not done, science and technology will not be able to make great progress and development.

Because all the science and technology of mankind in the past were cultivated in relatively free soil. If there is only oppression and despotism, there will be no free soil.

Two opposing systems will always produce some sharp contradictions, and in order to maintain stability, only despotism can be formed in the system and law.

Gene didn't know whether all this could really carry humanity into the future, but it turned out that in the more than 100 years since the establishment of Brilliant City, they had found another system that would solve the problem once and for all.

In the mechanized era, mechanized systems allow us to control everything and hold everything in our hands. Human beings only need to develop according to the design drawings. There is no need for individuality or freedom. They only need to be a part of the mechanical age.

After the parts are damaged and aged, replace them with new ones. You only need to ensure that the machine can continue to operate as usual. This may be the best "solution."

As a human being, Jean has always been unable to approve such an approach, but at the same time he has to admit it, because in the face of reality, everything Jean has done has become in vain after countless changes of times.

Gene couldn't help but think of everything his teacher Weiner had said when he passed away.

"What do we live for? When we were children, we were fearless, innocent and happy, and felt that we were different, as if everything was at our fingertips. However, as time goes by, we encounter problems that cannot be solved, so we We started to be rebellious, feeling like we had nothing to do, we had plenty of time, and we still had opportunities. However, before we knew it, when we grew up, we found that we had no opportunities. At this time, we learned something, kept a low profile, and became obedient and capable. Bow to those who are stronger than you, but no matter how hard you try, once you start to become useless, you will be kicked away. Until one day, we figured something out and decided to break everything and start over again, relying on our own efforts. Come to obtain a happy life, work hard, and year after year we finally have a little harvest. However, there will always be people in this world who want to get something for nothing. You need to always be careful about your back, because these people will always want to step on you. As you climb up, you must always be vigilant, and when you finally achieve your so-called happiness through hard work, you can spend your old age peacefully, but at this time you are watching the people and things you were familiar with in the past slowly disappearing, and you begin to. We are afraid of death and become timid. Eventually we grow old, we become nagging, we become fond of remembering the past, we become sarcastic, and we become the old people we used to hate. In the end, we all lead to death, and death is the end. The fairest thing in the world, no matter how glorious you were in the past, no matter how miserable you were in the past, you will only become dust in the end!"

Hydra once said something like this, live in order to die, but how many people can understand the true meaning?

The entire era is like a person's life, and it will come to an end one day.

The so-called results can only be seen when everything fades away, but was this result planted from the beginning? Or from the beginning to the end, the process in between is so similar and extremely cruel.

Jean looked at the time passing in front of him. Time seemed fair, but under the rules of time, it was extremely unfair.

click

The door to the Congress Hall opened, and Jean stood up and looked at Michelle walking towards him.

"Lord Jean, the arrangements have been made."

Gene hummed, then smiled slightly.

"Sorry Michelle, you are obviously so busy."

Michelle bowed slightly, stood aside, and followed Gene after he passed by.

6:24

X woke up from his deep sleep, and the lights around him turned on. After X got up, light and shadow screens appeared, with a large number of human body mechanical values ​​on them.

Having just come into contact with Leng Rui, it seemed that the boy was indeed what he thought, and it was impossible for him to believe Akers' identity. X laughed loudly.

It would be terrible if Leng Rui believed Akers' identity, and his plan would fail.

The purpose of X's doing this is just to let Leng Rui completely cut off all ties with the past, and from now on, he can seriously build Prometheus in a relatively stable and comfortable environment.

At the same time, it was also to let Leng Rui know that their mother was still alive. This was enough, and the subsequent plan X had been arranged.

All this is to allow Bright City to enter the mechanization era earlier. Once it enters the mechanization era, X's long-cherished wish will come true.

The first step of the plan will begin today. X slowly came to a metal door. As the metal door slowly opened, there was darkness in front of him, but at this time the lights came on.

There were people everywhere in the room, and people with dull eyes stood quietly. At this time, X clapped his hands.

With a flicker of light, the eyes of these people lit up, and soon the corpse-like people in front of them had expressions. Gradually, the entire hall became lively. There were a total of 1,013 people here.

This is the result of this period of time, and X is very satisfied. They will complete the replacement today, successfully integrate into human society, and quietly wait for the opportunity to come.

These 1,013 people were all selected through strict screening, and today they all have a chance to replace the main body. After precise planning and calculation, the chance is as high as 99.9999%.

"Okay everyone, you can start taking action."

X said, these people walked past him as if they were going shopping, talking and laughing. There were children, the elderly, men and women, all kinds of new humans were about to officially enter the human society today.

"It finally begins!"

X was overjoyed and his eyes were reddish. He was extremely excited. After a while, X returned to the previous room. Images appeared on the light and shadow screens, all from the first perspective.

In front of them is a dark and intricate underground waterway. These people will start from the subway station.

At this time, one of the women with the number A983 arrived at the subway station first. X sat down and quietly admired everything in front of him.

In the central subway station in District 89, a large number of people were waiting for the subway. At this time, an ordinary woman in gray clothes came over. She was anxiously waiting for the subway to arrive, and she looked at the time from time to time.

At this moment, next to the woman, a woman with similar clothes but wearing a mask and sunglasses appeared. The woman looked over and suddenly showed a shocked expression. The woman in front of her was exactly the same as herself, as if she was looking at herself in the mirror.

At this moment, the lights went out. After just a few seconds, the lights came on again. At this time, the woman on the platform had taken off her mask and sunglasses, but the man next to her stretched his nose to sniff and glanced at the woman next to her. She was still very anxious.

"Miss, it's better to drink more hot water."

The man reminded her, and the woman immediately replied indifferently.

"What's it to you."

The subway came, people rushed in, and the woman followed in.

The subway was empty at this time, and no one noticed that there was a small groove beside the dark subway track. At this time, blood flowed out of the groove. The woman who had just stood on the subway station was dead, with her eyes wide open in pain.

At this time, accompanied by a rustling sound, some black and red tentacles in the darkness slowly wrapped the woman, and then soon the woman's body shrank, and the blood on the ground disappeared after the tentacles crawled over.

As a new round of people came in, the lights in the subway station came on, and these black tentacles retracted into the groove and disappeared, and the woman's body also disappeared.

In just 2 minutes, no one saw what happened, and no one knew that the camera in the subway only recorded the busy crowd waiting for the subway.

On the streets of District 47, people came and went. In an alley, a drunkard had just woken up. He pressed his aching head. At this time, a woman ran in angrily. The drunkard got up quickly. It was his wife.

The man ran quickly, followed by his angry wife.

"Didn't you just say you were going to work? Why are you here again?"

The man was confused. He had never been home. Now he couldn't face his wife face to face, otherwise he would be beaten badly. The man finally got rid of his wife. He sneaked into an underground storage room. This was the back door of the pub he frequented. The man would come here every time he was avoiding something.

"Are you relieved?"

A voice appeared in the darkness. The man just turned around and saw a man who looked exactly like him, with a slightly red cheek and full of smiles.

"Who are you........"

A sharp metal thorn pierced the man's throat directly. He didn't even have time to doubt it and fell to the ground.