Bionic Era

It was dark.

Thick vines are wrapped around steel bars.

Red moss climbed up the ruins, exuding a disgusting smell, like coagulated blood.

The rotting corpse wriggled on the ground, with yellow-brown pus dripping from its misshapen limbs.

The whispers of cutting and chewing in the corners are like demonic whispers.

The place where the whole city was occupied by plants became dark and damp. Disgusting mutilated limbs were mixed with black filthy blood, which was mixed with carrion and fly maggots.

This is an unbearable scene of hell that human beings can hardly imagine. The sticky, filthy thick slurry proclaims death, but the rotten flesh is controlled by plants to twitch and move.

As soon as the rescue team from Mowu City arrived at the scene, many team members with weak psychological endurance vomited out.

The stench is bad.

This area challenges their physical and psychological limits every moment.

"In the area occupied by these plants, there are still many hidden residents. We need to rescue them."

"Do you really want to go in? Will we also become one of them?"

There was panic and panic in the eyes of the young team members.

Everyone was wearing thick protective clothing, and there was no gap on the whole body to prevent the intrusion of those plant seeds.

In front of them is the plant-occupied area.

One-twentieth of the entire Central City area.

The broken cement slabs were covered by plants, and dark red weeds grew on the broken bricks and tiles.

The rotting corpse hanging upside down was entangled in vines, and sometimes twitched. The twisted and broken bones looked like disgusting puppets being manipulated.

There is also some kind of strange gnawing sound all around.

The voice could penetrate the protective clothing and go straight into the brain, as if it sounded in the brain, like some kind of evil call, which made people feel deeply uncomfortable.

Deeper in the vegetation area was shrouded in a thick haze.

It's the first day of October.

Central City ushered in the worst smog this year.

In the depths of those gray areas, there seemed to be even more terrifying creatures twisting and wriggling. Their figures were blurred, their eyes were scarlet, and their sharp fangs dripped with yellow-brown liquid. They were dragging their deformed and strange bodies, waiting for everyone to enter.

Fear hangs over the hearts of every team member who is about to set off.

It is a fear of the unknown and death.

Lu Wen frowned, he could feel that his connection with other bodies was much weaker in the smog.

The visibility of the human naked eye is extremely low in this smog, almost to the point where you can't see your fingers. In this case, the team members who go in face a considerable danger. After all, those plants will actively attack.

The rectification of the environment in this world should indeed be put on the agenda, but everything needs to wait until the end of this war.

Lu Wen suggested: "Just let the bionics go in and search. The fear of flesh and blood creatures in the face of these weird plants will get in the way, and unexpected situations may occur."

Another person in charge at the scene said: "In the face of emergencies, human beings should be more capable of responding than bionics. These plants are indeed too weird."

Rescue teams were dispatched from every city.

Finally, after deliberation, groups of bionics and humans were mixed to go deep into the urban area occupied by plants.

Lu Wen and some other responsible persons came to a nearby hospital.

Now the whole hospital is full of special patients.

These patients either had strange plants growing on their limbs, or they were already corpses, but they were still wriggling, so the family members did not want to believe that they were dead.

The old mayor of Central City was beside Lu Wen. His old face was a little more wrinkled than when we met last time. He asked, "Have you seen "Annihilation"?"

"I've seen it. There is still a big gap between the current situation and the movie. You have to believe in science." Lu Wen answered seriously.

"I watched that when I was very young." The old mayor recalled: "A restricted old movie, what impressed me most at the time was the wriggling intestines in the soldier's stomach, like strips Skinned smooth snakes..."

It may be the childhood shadow of the old mayor, so he remembers it very clearly.

In the hospital, outside these special isolation wards, the heads of various cities can clearly see those patients.

Literal interpretation of "vegetative".

Looking through the glass.

Small scarlet flowers grew on one of the arms, swaying gently, and seemed to have a tendency to spread towards the body.

It is hard to imagine the pain and panic this patient is facing.

The other's leg was entwined with dark red and slippery vines, and the viscous blood covered the surface of the vines. The doctor said that the white roots of the vines had already entangled most of the internal organs and pierced them in. This patient could not be saved at all. Euthanized, then directly cremated.

Fire is currently the only way to deal with these plants.

The accompanying doctor looked at the ward on the other side, pointed to the inside and introduced: "The one we are seeing now... This is already a dead body, highly decomposed, but due to the action of certain plants in the body, this rotten body The corpse often twitches or moves, and the family members of the deceased believe that this is a revelation from the gods..."

The medical staff in the hospital are all wearing white protective clothing, coming and going.

From time to time, strange howls could be heard in the surrounding isolation wards.

The whole hospital was shrouded in an atmosphere of depression and panic.

Lu Wen could see that the faces of the medical staff under the masks were a little pale.

After the war started, they faced a lot of blood every day, and many of the wounded and sick had mutilated limbs, but this was the first time anyone had seen such a strange situation.

"I believe everyone can understand the current predicament of Central City."

The old mayor brought them to see, not only to show what the central city is currently facing, but also to warn other cities.

If the disaster in Central City is not contained, this situation is likely to spread to other cities.

"At present, we have stopped the exchange of fire with the machine race. Those machines seem to be worried about being entangled by these weird plants. It is not clear whether they released these plant seeds."

"The first known infected person is John Williams, a middle-aged man. A week ago, he lived on the outermost edge of the quarantine area, which is also the edge of the central city. The area where the machine race appeared and mainly attacked is far away, so we speculate that it is not the machine race..."

In just one week, these terrifying and weird plants occupied one-twentieth of the area of ​​Central City.

The casualties caused have surpassed the invasion of the machine race.

Those tiny plant seeds are almost invisible to the human eye.

They float with the wind, enter the room through windows, ventilation ducts, etc., and are pervasive. As long as they land on flesh and blood creatures, they can quickly take root and sprout, and seem to release some kind of anesthetic drug, so that the parasitized person feels nothing in the early stage. It was too late to find out.

Most parasitism occurs at night.

People usually wake up to find that strange plants have grown on certain parts of their bodies, and these plants are still absorbing their blood.

Although there is no pain, fear still drives these parasitized people to the hospital.

That John Williams was the first recorded case.

He was admitted to the hospital for observation that day, and died in situ in the ward the next day.

When he was discovered in the morning, the nurse pushed open the door of his ward, and found that his corpse's chest was broken by plants, his sternum was broken, his internal organs were heavily entwined with white roots, and a strange scarlet flower grew out of his chest, the size of a human face. , and there seemed to be some kind of perception, the flower was still looking towards the nurse at that time.

Another urban expert asked: "Have you studied the cells of these things? Are they plant cells or animal cells?"

"this……"

The person in charge of Central City hesitated to speak, and it seemed difficult to explain.

In the end, he could only ask all the experts in biology to follow him to the laboratory.

There are so many weird things that are hard to describe with existing language.

Lu Wen could probably guess the result.

The cells of these plants would certainly divide rapidly and would have some of the properties of animal cells.

If the war is over, Lu Wenhui would like to meet the scientist who developed this gadget in Haoyue back then, and if necessary, shoot the scientist to death on the spot.

"More than 300 search and rescue teams have entered the plant isolation area from different directions to search. I think...the hope is not too great. It is estimated that the residents of the central city hidden inside will hardly survive. They will die in pain. I hope They have guns by their side, suicide is less painful."

All are wearing white isolation suits.

Outside the isolation zone, residents in an area of ​​30 kilometers have been evacuated, forming a vacuum zone.

Under the gray smog, the whole city looked like a dead city.

Empty streets, cluttered weeds, and rusty street lamps shone dimly in the haze.

I can't see the sky when I look up.

Many people didn't have time to take away the clothes drying on the balconies, and the pale clothes fluttered gently in the cold wind.

Although it was only the beginning of October, everyone couldn't help but feel the coldness.

"The source...you must find the source, otherwise the whole world will be threatened, which is a greater threat than the invasion of those creatures underground."

People are worried.

They don't want their own city to be the next to send out a message for help.

These plant seeds are harder to guard against than subterranean creatures.

Subterranean creatures also understand this truth. Not all the robots live there, and there are a small number of other races. They don't know that this thing was created by the scientists of Haoyue Company in the high-level world, so now the war is temporarily stopped. .

Lu Wen stood outside the quarantine area, his eyes were fixed on those slowly wriggling plants and corpses, the blurred haze had less effect on him than on human eyes, after a moment of silence, he said: "I think I know where the source might be."

Suddenly everyone was quiet.

They either turned their heads or took two steps closer, all looking at Lu Wen, eager to know the answer.

Lu Wen said slowly: "There is a city..."

...

in a few days.

dusk.

The smog dissipated.

In an uninhabited area not far from the central city.

A ruined city that has been abandoned for a long time.

The yellow sand rose slightly.

Lu Wen once entered this city in order to hunt down one of Xia Chuluo's enemies.

The acrid smell of liquid and solid fuel echoed throughout the city.

The weird plants spreading in the city seemed to have noticed something, the weeds began to shake, the scarlet flowers became anxious, and the red moss covering the dilapidated walls wrinkled in layers, as if they were trying to wrap themselves.

Inside the city, the huge lake was rippling violently.

A lot of liquid fuel has flowed into the lake and covered the surface of the lake.

The huge vines by the lake were also stained with liquid fuel.

The bell tower collapsed, the amusement park was no longer maintained by plants, and all kinds of violent strange noises resounded throughout the city.

"It's time, let's go."

With the order, hundreds of drones flew towards the city carrying incendiary bombs.

This is a beautiful sunset, the crimson sun burning in the sky, reflecting the rugged city silhouette.

Before long, as the incendiary bombs fell, the city began to burn.

The dust blows like tulle.

Everyone is wearing protective clothing and standing at a distance.

In the turbulent fire, everyone heard some kind of strange scream, like a strange animal struggling to die.

In the video sent back by the drone, those huge plant vines are tumbling crazily, with red liquid flowing all over their bodies, as if they are trying to extinguish the flames.

The plants in the entire city were distorted in the firelight, and howled vaguely.

It's a hellish scene.

The water in that lake was surging even more violently. A puff of red liquid surged up from the bottom of the lake, dyeing the entire lake red. The rotting carcasses and bones of animals floated on the surface of the bloody lake. The huge vines at the bottom of the lake looked like weird tentacles. It's like a giant boa constrictor churning the water, and everything looks like some horrible picture scroll of purgatory.

"The second echelon departs."

No one will feel compassion for these weird plants.

More drones set off.

They carried powerful missiles and flew over the city.

In the turbulent flames, under the beautiful crimson sunset, countless missiles fell like meteors, causing the earth to tremble, and the roar made everyone standing far away feel that their eardrums were about to be torn.

That lake suffered the most bombing, and the scarlet lake was boiling.

The fire lasted for a full week.

Whenever the fire tends to get smaller, drones will deliver more fuel and incendiary bombs, covering the entire city in a terrifying fire.

Black smoke billowed.

Even Lu Wen's avatar in the high-level world can see the fire soaring into the sky.

During this period, a sandstorm occurred, and the hurricane carried dust and fire, shuttled and roared among the burned urban buildings, forming the most terrifying mixture of sandstorm and fire tornado in history, connecting the sky and the earth, shocking, At that time, people stationed outside the city had to evacuate urgently.

It was embarrassing, but fortunately there were no safety accidents in the end.

After the fire ended, a large number of bionics entered the ruined city and began to search the entire land for any remaining plants.

Everyone did not let down their vigilance.

at the same time.

There have been many breakthroughs in search and rescue operations on the city side.

In the plant isolation area, there are indeed many people trapped in it, and the protective measures are better, or luck is better. In the end, they all put on protective clothing, were escorted out of the isolation area one after another, and were sent to the hospital for observation .

"We will separate these cleaned-up urban areas and burn them with flames in batches. This is the only way at present..."

Everything is going in a good direction.

Rescue teams in various cities have made plans to stay here for a long time.

A whole month passed like this.

The evacuation of the West is still going on.

On the central city side, the machine race was also quiet for a month without any movement.

Because of these creepy plants, this is the first area where the fire ceases.

On a day close to mid-November.

In the worldwide war, a second ceasefire zone appeared.

The city of Cree in the north has ceased fire with the white-haired people.

The cause was a debate about historical issues.

During the rest of the war, the two sides debated history loudly with loudspeakers across the battlefield, and words such as "invasion" and "fiction" were widely used.

In the end, since no one could say anything, I had no choice but to convince the other party.

Using hot weapons is not enough.

So the two sides put down their hot weapons, rolled up their sleeves and started a fist-to-hand melee fight. They both seemed to enjoy this sense of blow.

More than 100,000 people fought chaotically, and a large number of civilians from both sides joined the battle. The scene was once very intense.

The battle went on for several days.

Not a single shot was fired.

In the end, they were all tired from fighting, and they all sat or lay down on the battlefield, temporarily putting aside their disagreements, and the two sides exchanged their drinking experience.

In the end, it was found that they were highly consistent in their attitudes towards drinking.

So there was a truce.

Lu Wen was stunned for a long time after hearing the news, and finally had to say something.

"This truce...is too hasty."