In the dead of night, the factory area on the ground floor of the western middle floor, on the night street of District 51, is just after 2 o'clock in the morning, and it is still lively at this time.

In the distance, the surface of the columns shimmered red from time to time, and in the night sky, huge pillars stood in the west and stretched to the edge of the ground floor, where all the factories in the city were located.

These waste disposal pipes liquefy all the waste inside and then discharge it directly into the gully through underground sewage pipes.

There was a strange smell in the air, the pungent smell of metal, and the smell of food, and almost all of the factory workers gathered here were constantly swearing from the food stalls on the street.

Many factories have been shut down because of this black market trading incident, most of them are not skilled workers, only temporary contracts, with the deadline issued by the factory to work, the same day of work settlement, most of the people who come to the factory to seek a way out only have received primary school education, literacy will count, in this kind of place only the good head of the guy can climb up, or know how to tend to the flames of the trend, it is possible to sign a long-term contract with the company's factories, and with a long-term contract to have the corresponding welfare protection.

Every day, some daily necessities and machinery needed by the whole city will be produced from the west, directly through the underground logistics pipeline, transported to the middle or lower north or south of the delivery and storage place, and then distributed to the whole city through some mutant express delivery.

Most of the workers who are complaining today are people who can't go to work tomorrow, and if they can't go to work for a day, they will have to earn less money for a day, so many people get together on nights like this, complain, drink some cheap wine and eat.

At a fried food stall on the corner of the street, Tamai smiled and ordered a table of dishes, and in front of him was a middle-aged man of his age, in his 90s, bald, with pointed ears, some splashes of colored paint on his face, dark skin, and a pair of seemingly shrewd eyes with suspicion all the time.

The man's name is Zedu, a technical consultant of the photoelectric conversion material factory, and he is an old acquaintance with Tamayi.

"What the hell is Tamaii, you can honestly tell me."

"You can tell you if you promise me first, and you have to sign a contract first, it's not a bad thing, and you may be able to go to 10 subjects after the deed."

Zedu smiled bitterly and took a sip of wine, Tamaii was able to enter Zedu's factory at noon yesterday with a search warrant from Section 5 and find him, but he was busy at the time, so the two made an appointment to wait for Zedu to come here to drink after he was busy, and Tamayi waited until late at night Zedu came over.

"I think I believed your words before, and I became like this."

Zedo's voice was slightly dissatisfied.

Tamaii smiled helplessly.

"Who knows which tendon is wrong for that old man, stealing control of the artificial sun, openly arguing with Congress, to establish a city state, the past is over, don't mention it again."

Zedu snorted coldly, in order to save his life, Zedu unconditionally taught the technology in his hand to 10 subjects, and finally picked up a small life, but he was not allowed to conduct research on optical nuclei for life, and he was not allowed to mention the past to anyone, and he needed to report to 1 subject every month.

"This time I need a maintenance technician, your skills should not be rusty, and it can be regarded as a little compensation from me."

"Security!"

Zedu said as Tamaii scratched his head.

"It should be guaranteed."

"Don't say should, yes."

Zedu looked at Tamaii dissatisfied, staring at the contract that could not see the content on the light and shadow screen next to him, and it was an orange file, it shouldn't be a simple matter, but once it was signed, it might be troublesome if he didn't participate, and Zedu signed the contract after hesitating for a while.

After a while, Zedu's eyes widened, and he looked at the content of the contract incredulously, there was no big content, only one, the investigation outside the barrier.

"With whom?"

"Jean."

Zedu's face became solemn.

"That's the way it is, since I signed it, there is no choice, Mr. Jean asked me to help form a team to investigate outside the barriers, although it is said to be an investigation, but I don't know exactly what to do."

Zedu gritted his teeth, drank half a glass of wine in one gulp, and sighed.

"I see, I'll prepare, as for who exactly do you want to find? Don't take it with you, after all, the outside world is not simple, I went there more than 70 years ago. ”

Tamai nodded, he knew this, but Zedu never revealed what was outside, because after he came back, he was silent.

Tamayi listed the personnel occupations needed for the investigation outside the barrier, 2 vehicle maintenance technicians, 5 tactical teams, 1 doctor, 3 detectives, plus Tamaii himself, as well as Jean and Tang Rao, a total of 13 people, which is the most ideal configuration.

"What's the benefit when you come back?"

"I don't know about this, I'll talk to Mr. Jean slowly when I find everyone, and I'll get the members of the tactics team tomorrow."

Zedu looked at Tamai suspiciously.

"Someone's chosen?"

"According to the body numerical data of mutants, it can be filtered, but it is actually useless, the value of the top S-level mutants is generally around 2000, but the actual combat ability, environmental adaptability and other aspects of the comprehensive consideration, only the lightning skeleton group of guys is a little useful, but if there is anything, we still have two top combatants on our side."

Zedu was even more puzzled.

"Who else but Mr. Jean?"

"Tang Rao."

.......

A quirky apartment building, each floor is 20 meters long square, and each floor is stacked on top of each other, with a large 400 square meters of space, and four balconies to enjoy the light at all times.

The 20-and-a-half-story building is located in a beautiful small garden, and at this time, on the veranda full of vines and plants on the top floor, Li Chu is on the stove next to him, getting food.

"I've been here several times and haven't seen you, you bastard didn't mean to avoid me, did you?"

Jean held a bottle of wine and touched Tang Rao, both of them took a big sip, and Tang Rao yawned.

"How is that possible, it's just that I'm not here."

Tang Raomi looked at Li Chu with a smile.

"Why is it that every time I come you are there, Jean is not there when you come."

"Okay, okay, don't say a few words, there are still a lot of things to deal with tomorrow, now that the polls have changed, nearly half of the people think that the Phoebus family is not easy."

Jean nodded, and Li Chu came over with a plate of peanuts, and after sitting down, the three of them began to drink.

"You're going out early next month, have you arranged the personnel?"

Li Chu asked.

"I'll leave it to Tamaii."

Tang Rao was a little surprised, but said immediately.

"It's good to hand it over to that kid, it shouldn't be too boring along the way, but Jean, it should take half a month just to go out and determine the route, from the plateau where we are located, directly to the Heavenly Punishment Crater in the center of the Pacific Ocean, along the way through the Eurasian continent, about 20,000 kilometers away, where did you go in the months when you disappeared?"

Jean shook his head, because the route they chose was the route that Jean had taken to the Great Pit of Heavenly Punishment to bring back a large number of mimics, but on this route, Jean had disappeared for a while, and they had to wait and not be able to send any exploration team, after all, as gods, it was impossible for them to die.

Eventually, Jean returned with a large number of mimics, which were enough to last for more than 100 years.

"I've already told Noah that he is going to bring back at least 2,000 tons of supplies this time, and he's working on the vehicle."

Li Chu said, Tang Rao stared at him with slanted eyes.

"It's us who go out and work hard."

"I know, I know, I wish you two to go early and return early."

Li Chu raised the wine as he spoke, and the three of them took a sip.

There are too many dangers outside the barrier, and this operation is very difficult, although Jean and Tang Rao are enough to bring back supplies, but the efficiency is definitely lower.

"It's about two months."

Tang Rao said and Jean smiled and nodded.

"If time permits, I hope you can go to North and South America to have a look, and some telegrams will be monitored from time to time over the years, after all, there was once the strongest United States in that land, and our city built in the Himalayas is not the last stronghold of mankind, and if we had chosen to go to North America at that time, maybe we would not have come here."

Immediately, Tang Rao smiled bitterly.

"No way, at that time, Werther's students strayed into a military base in North Africa and were detained, we could only fight all the way in, and the situation was a little nervous, after all, the launch rocket of the space station was in Europe at the time, if we went to North America, we might miss it, and in the end we missed it, remember when we watched the last rocket that left the earth that night?"

Jean smiled and nodded, the eight of them were desperate at the time, not only they but also a large number of people who stayed in the rocket launch base, desperately watching the rocket rise into the air, at that time there was an outbreak of large-scale disease and because the earth was covered by the dust generated by the asteroid impact, everything was chaotic, and some people immediately began to prepare to establish a base in some underground facilities in the city, but basically it could not last for three months.

A moment of despair made all mankind start a difficult journey of survival, and in the end, Tang Rao proposed that there is an extremely secret military base in the Himalayas, where there is a complete gene pool of animals and plants and a lot of scientific equipment, and only that place is the last hope.

However, when they arrived at the so-called base of the Last Hope, the eight of them were surprised because it was already overcrowded.

"I've been dreaming about the past recently, and I don't know why, but I always feel very uncomfortable, because maybe we will see that time one day, because we have become gods, and we have obtained eternal life and immortal bodies, what will the next era of mankind look like? How can we keep humanity alive? ”

Li Chu's tone was slightly low, and Tang Rao sighed.

"The key lies in the Sky Space Country, if we can get the information of the planet suitable for human habitation from their hands, and make all preparations, our huge Noah's warship can set sail, and now those plants have begun to climb the barrier, and in the monitoring report of the 3rd branch this month, it has reached a height of 100 meters."

"So fast?"

Jean asked, Tang Rao nodded, and Li Chu smiled helplessly.

"One day when they get used to the light, they will definitely break through the barriers."

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