Chapter 693 60. Life, bloom on the road to the future
"Snapped"
In the dead silent ruins, there was a slight sound of opening the door, and at this dawn, the stars suddenly appeared.
This may be the last time Mason used the World Gate. Although the K team has been disbanded and the stars will be finished, the placement of this thing is still accurate.
It's just that after opening the door, the scenery in front of you has changed.
The once bustling city is now only left with large ruins that spread to the end of the line of sight. Because the ecological environment has been destroyed, it is no longer suitable for human habitation. The ruins after the evacuation of life are particularly miserable, and only some bionic people from Arasaka Industry are still in it Work.
These hardy androids have cleared out much of the rubble and built their minimalist assembly shop and "living quarters."
Although the labor and new life here is not a blessing, but for these bionics who have chosen to physically rebuild, everything they do in this real world is more meaningful than staying in cyberspace and wasting their lives in vain. many.
Of course their aid to the reconstruction of the Isu world is not free, and it is impossible for a big company like Arasaka to come to do good deeds.
For example, this ruin has been designated by the Isu World as a construction area reserved for Arasaka Industry, and it will also become one of the many civilization restart points in the Mikoshi World in the future.
This is the result of discussions between Ms. Huazi and Sister Ka. It also proves that not all people from the 2077 world are willing to follow in the footsteps of Batemos and transform into another form in the unknown mechanical kingdom.
Mechanical Ascension is a good ending for the fate of the world.
But it has the same problem as the other endings, which is that it's not for everyone.
Life always has its own ideas, although they are not always correct, but this is obviously not a detail that Mason needs to intervene at this time. They are free, and they have the right to decide their own future as individuals without affecting the overall interests.
"After your people recover, they have to learn to coexist with the large group of bionics. At least they must help each other in difficult times."
Mason walked among the ruins and said to Brother A beside him:
"I will ask Huazi to give you some preferential treatment."
"No need."
Moser shook his head and said firmly:
"They don't need special treatment!
My world is not so fragile that a baby can't even take care of itself. If they want to get back their civilization and find a perfect new home, they have to come by themselves.
Trust them.
When they used me as a counter-shock plan, they had already made preparations for the recovery of civilization in advance. They even set up a fairly sophisticated permission tree in the genetic sequence of the black light virus.
Life will not be revived all at once.
Those carefully selected elites will be the first to recover from my remains. They are the forerunners of civilization after the restart of the doomsday, and the ordinary people will follow.
They have plans and plans, just like you.
So, I believe they can. "
"Well, if you don't need preferential treatment from the outside, maybe you, a legendary person, can give them some help?"
Mason blinked and said:
"For example, use the immortality and immortality of the black light virus to give them some genetic or life form enhancements? Is this necessary?"
He pointed to the land in front of him that was still blowing sandstorms in the dawn night, and said:
"You let a group of ordinary people start the reconstruction of civilization in an area where the ecosystem has completely collapsed, is it a bit too difficult for them?"
"I wouldn't do that."
Brother A stubbornly shook his head and said:
"My agreement with Ms. Cassandra is not like this, but I may be able to prepay the 'rent' for my people in advance for this land."
His words were very cryptic, but Mason nodded, obviously guessing how this guy used to convince Sister Ka and the assassin managers of this world.
Mason decided to respect Brother A's will not to participate.
In this epic of civilization recovery, he is just a witness and bystander.
"Wait a mininute."
Mason made a gesture to signal Brother A not to rush to perform the "Demon Disintegration Dafa". He stepped forward quickly, crossed a collapsed place cleaned up by bionic people, and walked in front of a sculpture.
He looked at the stone sculpture in front of him.
This is a portrait carved out of a single collapsed giant stone, on which is the scene of the Assassin Saint John Wick holding the leadership module and dying generously.
The entire stone sculpture is restored quite vividly, which does not conceal Wick's embarrassment in the last stage of his life.
But it also vividly shows the perseverance and bravery of this assassin saint, especially the movement of him looking up at the starry sky, which perfectly restores Wick's last wish and conveys a certain momentum of promoting the Isu people's unyielding attitude.
It is a masterpiece at first glance.
Mason's inscriptions are also at Lv9. He definitely has enough evaluation rights in terms of carvings. After looking at the inscriptions under the stone carvings, he found that they were carved by Sister Ka himself. Such a high degree of completion is naturally understandable.
For an immortal who has lived for more than two thousand years, even taking the time to learn stone carving skills is enough to let her craftsmanship rise to the top.
"I would like to commemorate our bravest compatriot, John Wick. At the moment when our world was overthrown and civilization collapsed, he stood up, defeated the enemy of the stars with his courage and fearlessness, and won us a continuation. Power and dignity!
He is the model and symbol of the way of an assassin!
is the embodiment of unyielding and tenacity in the hearts of all Isu people. Under his watchful eyes, we will surely step into the future and step into the stars. "
Mason read out the inscription on the stone carving.
He noticed that there was a traditional and elegant Hidden Blade symbol under the stone carving, which represented Wick's identity.
He has become a true assassin saint, and his stories will be remembered in the next era along with the existence of the Isu civilization and sung in the sea of stars.
Famousness is not a good thing for an assassin, but considering that Wick is dead, such a fanfare is necessary.
"I think you may not like the statue they made for you. After all, your dog is not carved in it, which may make you feel lonely."
Mason said something softly, and took out the white flowers that had been prepared for mourning from his luggage and placed them in front of Wick's sculpture.
There are already piles of bouquets of flowers quickly weathered in the wind and sand. Obviously, there are others who will cross the vast storm to come here to pay homage to their brothers and pioneer heroes.
That's fine.
A good civilization is one that respects and remembers heroes.
"We won, Wick."
Mason half-kneeled in front of the sculpture.
He gestured to Brother A who was bowing his head in silence behind him. The latter turned and left and came back a few seconds later with a stone of suitable size.
Mason took out the carving knife for the inscription in his hand, and while carving skillfully, he said to the dead soul represented by the sculpture like an old friend talking:
"Although you haven't been able to see it with your own eyes, we have completed the expedition to Hell and disbanded the Constellation. The organization that once stared at your world has become a story that will eventually be forgotten in the Dark Ages.
Their chaos, evil and madness will also be the talk of posterity after dinner, and you will also be a part of that story, maybe still a very important part.
But I know, you don't really care about these.
Although you have never told me about your past life, it is not difficult for me to find these materials.
Maybe when your wife died, you became a ghost wandering in the world, moving aimlessly in a world that doesn't belong to you.
I don't know what you were thinking when you died, but I guess that death doesn't make you feel afraid. If there is really a paradise reserved for assassins, then you must be with your wife at this time. where reunion.
You are never alone.
You just did what you thought was necessary and worthwhile, and that was a truly heroic act, and I'm honored to be part of your life experience and to be considered a trusted friend.
Nothing you did was in vain.
This allows me to finally muster up the courage to give you my last gift without regret. "
Amidst the sound of the carving knife across the stone, a lifelike statue of a golden retriever was finished. Mason blew away the dust and debris on the stone carving, and then picked it up and placed it under Wick's statue.
Then he got up and took a look back.
Under the originally tragic and fearless statue of the dying man, a puppy was lying there licking his wound. The expression of the puppy was full of worry and nostalgia, which invisibly dispelled the chilling and despair of the sculpture. It adds a touch of warmth.
"How about it?"
Mason lit a cigarette, turned around and asked Brother A, who nodded and said in a hoarse voice:
"It's much better than before, at least it's no longer like a **** statue hung on the wall, awed by all the eyes looking at him but no one really cares."
"Do you need me to carve one for you?"
The captain squeezed his eyes and said:
"You can customize the shape and the thoughts you want to convey. I'm in a good mood today, and I only charge you a manual fee."
"Forget it, it's not necessary."
Brother A didn’t know whether he was stingy or he didn’t really care. He waved his hand and said:
"I'm not a person who should be remembered, and my tombstone doesn't bother you. Let's go, it's almost dawn, and I want to finish this matter before dawn."
"Um."
Mason nodded and followed Brother A to leave here. When he turned around, he waved to the sculpture behind him and said:
"I'll take care of your dog, don't have to worry about anything, Wick, enjoy the reunion in your paradise."
A few minutes later, brother A arrived at the destination. In fact, it is not far from Wick's sculpture. If the city is still there, it is basically only a few blocks away.
Although there are ruins here, the terrain is flat. Not far away, there is a water that is about to dry up leading to the half-remained harbor in the distance. The shape of the semi-surrounding valley is very suitable as a starting point for civilization.
Although it can’t carry too many people, considering that Brother A’s world only chooses this place as a temporary residence, they will definitely leave the Isu world to settle in a new place in the future, so this choice can be said to be perfect.
Mason raised his head and glanced at the sky. It was already the darkest hour of the day, and dawn would usher in ten minutes.
Brother A is usually so quiet, but he didn’t expect to be such a guy with such a strong sense of ritual. He probably also wants to play with literature and art, so that his civilization can be revived in the light of dawn.
He is really a deeply hidden literary youth.
"Do you need my help?"
Mason puffed out a smoke ring and asked, Brother A shook his head.
He opened his bag and threw out a lot of jars. There were strange solid energy blocks inside. The captain didn't need to check it. He just sniffed it and knew that it was concentrated life energy. He didn't know what it was. Where did it come from.
This amount of energy is enough to revive the population of a small city.
Under Mason's gaze, brother A took a deep breath and took off his hood facing the distant ocean. He moved his five fingers to push the activity of the black light virus to the strongest, and then his fingers turned into black tendrils and inserted The jars around him extended like spider webs so that the ends of their tentacles could absorb enough energy.
His feet pierced the ground like an old tree taking root, and continued to extend downward.
Like a thousand-year-old tree, in Mason's perception, he could feel the black tendrils running under the ground filling and running like dense blood vessels, quickly spreading in the slight vibration of the ground Under the small half of the ruins.
This movement was quickly detected by the bionic laborers working in the surrounding ruins, and a few minutes later, armed bionics riding an octant rushed over.
But seeing Mason standing there, the soldiers immediately put down their weapons.
Although she is not a manager of Arasaka Industry, Miss Huazi, who is currently at the helm of the large group, is your secretary. Of course, these staff members who belong to the group must pay the strongest respect to Mason.
The kindness of the chief captain to them is really unending in several lifetimes.
Mason didn't chase away the approaching bionic people.
He allowed them to observe this process from the outside. Under the gaze of more and more people, brother A's body continued to elongate. After the infusion of enough life energy and the "spreading" program in the black light virus gene sequence officially started , His original life form is also being changed rapidly.
It was like some kind of weird and absurd "alien", which lost its human form in just a few minutes and stood up like a black leafless tree.
His arms turned into trunk vines extending to the ground, and his body continued to expand, eventually forming a trunk surrounded by solidified black biological horniness.
Weak branches continued to protrude from Moser's back to look around, and the bare trunk quickly formed a canopy covering the surroundings.
There are dark red light spots shining on the weird black branches, which is the last link of the spreading program that the continuously transformed life can be sent into the black light virus.
This should be the most suitable way for him to spread his life, which Brother A concluded through his research on the power of the red of all things.
Although it looks very scary, Mason can fully understand the principle of its effect. Under his silent gaze, the ends of the branches that are constantly diverging also form red "cocoons" like flower buds.
It keeps expanding like twigs and fruits, until the branches are bent and they are gently placed on the ground one by one.
There is also a reddish light beating in those cocoons.
People with good eyesight can even see the rapidly forming embryos contained in the unknown substance, just like the process of the birth of clones, but Brother A accelerated this process with the black light virus that has evolved to the extreme.
Amid the exclamations of the bionic people behind Mason, those black branches continued to extend, branching from the main trunk, until finally forming a "black forest" covering the entire valley and the half-residual harbor.
At this time, brother A has turned into an existence that cannot be described in words, and he can no longer see his body as a life and any traces of human beings. He turned himself into this giant black tree over 100 meters high , Those branches that extend like spider webs form layers of strange patterns.
Being in it is like standing in a living nest, and the number of embryos that have been spawned has exceeded tens of thousands and is still being born.
those points of light
Red light spots like fireflies rose from this black nest of strange life, and they were blown towards the city behind in the wind and sand of the night.
Mason stretched out his hand and let a group of reddish light spots fall on the palm of his hand.
He could feel the pure life force contained in this light spot, which began to dissolve and give when it fell.
There were bursts of exclamations from the bionic people behind them. When they saw the red light spot hit the ground, it would merge into the ground, and then green grass and flowers would grow rapidly.
Brother A’s black light virus has engulfed the whole world, not only humans but also beasts and plants, and he wants to regenerate these natural things while releasing his people.
This is the agreement between him and Sister Ka.
Sister Ka lent part of the world to her people, and brother A wants to help Sister Ka rebuild this barren land into an ecosystem.
As the most perfect host for the black light virus, Brother A can do this.
"click"
The soft sound of a big cocoon shattering came to Mason's ears, causing the captain to look up and follow the sound, and saw the first "hatched" cocoon under a black branch that went deep into the ground not far from him.
Like a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon, a naked young girl with short hair is panting and crawling out of it, her body is stained with some kind of mucus.
makes this scene look very evil.
But Mason recognized her, and the face that was 70% similar to Brother A was enough to prove her identity.
The captain turned his head away in a gentlemanly way, and took out a set of Harley's clothes from his luggage and handed it over. On the eve of dawn, he whispered:
"Hi Diana, get dressed, you don't want to miss this next scene."
(end of this chapter)