Demolition Earth

Chapter 39 Familiar Strangers

6 days after seeing Du Yan last time, at Ningzhou University.

The school has not yet started, and there are basically no people in the school.Because it was the Chinese New Year period, the two rows of stalls in front of the school were not open.

It snowed for several days a few days ago, and the inside and outside of the campus were all white. When Zhao Changqi came to the school, the snow had just stopped. Now he went out, but the sun was not visible. The sky is so cloudy, occasionally a little The wind, blowing on people's faces like blades, is bitingly cold.

This is definitely not a comfortable weather. If it was the past, with Zhao Changqi's habit, he would either shrink his neck and hide in the dormitory to play computer games, or go directly to an air-conditioned Internet cafe, or simply get under the bed in the dormitory. "Hibernate" until I can no longer bear to get out of bed after being suffocated by a burst of urine.

But now, at seven o'clock in the morning, he stood motionless in the cold wind.He was pushing a wheelchair in his hand, but his eyes kept staring not far away. The owner of the wheelchair was shooting on the basketball court.

She, or him, or it... Du Yan, or Yang Fan, or a part of Yang Fan... Zhao Changqi doesn't know how to define the girl in front of him who is exercising like ordinary people. From the outside, she Definitely a human being, but what about the essence?
Zhao Changqi didn't know, he had seen the perspective view of her brain, a large area of ​​the brain disappeared, replaced by some network-like structures that grew precisely and perfectly fit, like a complicated spider web, this spider Finally, the net completely leads to an irregularly shaped core, and there should be the core of this new life body.

It is difficult for medical scientists and scientists to understand how this structure perfectly replaces the function of the brain - the brain can be said to be the most complex structure known to mankind at present, and human beings' understanding of their own brain is only at a very shallow level , but the aliens seem to know this very well. Not only does he understand all the functions of the brain, he can even perfectly replace it with other structures.

"Zhao Changqi, come and take some shots." Du Yan said loudly from a distance, and then slammed the basketball over.Not very accurate, Zhao Changqi took a few steps, went to catch it, then walked to the position of the three-point line, bent his legs, raised his hand, stood up straight, and shot, all in one go.

The basketball drew a beautiful arc, swish, a perfect three non-stick, the basketball bounced on the ground a few times, and rolled down on the snow outside the court.

Du Yan was on the side, laughing loudly: "You have used this body for more than 20 years, and you are not as skilled in using it as I am."

Zhao Changqi didn't smile, but just stared at Du Yan as he trotted over, picked up the ball, and walked towards him while dribbling.

It's really hard to imagine. When I first met Du Yan, she could hardly control the body to stand in balance and could only lie on the bed. At that time, he thought that the technology of aliens was nothing more than that.

But soon, Zhao Changqi found out that he was wrong.

On the bed, Du Yan will practice all kinds of movements, such as hand grasping, body coordination, crawling, sitting, and standing.It took two days for her to barely master the sitting position, and she was able to stand up on the third day and began to learn to walk, but she often fell down, so she was equipped with a wheelchair.

Today is the sixth day, and her performance is no different from that of an ordinary person, even more agile and energetic than most of the people in this university.

Du Yan dribbled the ball, ran past him briskly, then made a few fancy dribble moves, took off from the three-point line, shot, and hit the center.

Zhao Changqi suddenly ran over to grab the ball, and after getting it, Du Yan put on a defensive posture in front of him.

Du Yan is more than ten centimeters shorter than him, but her movements and momentum are in place. Zhao Changqi tried to break through, but Du Yan blocked it. Zhao Changqi turned around and sent him off like a high school classmate. He used his back strength to oppress Du Yan. Obviously not used to this kind of confrontation, Zhao Changqi fell to the ground in response, turned around and made a jump shot, and the ball was scored.

When she turned her head, Du Yan hadn't gotten up yet. It seemed that the fall was a bit severe, and her skin was scratched. She raised her head, seemed a little angry, and kept staring at Zhao Changqi, her eyes were red, and there were shiny things flickering .

Zhao Changqi glanced at her and mocked: "I didn't expect you to be afraid of pain."

"It's because this body is afraid of pain," Du Yan said in a weeping voice, but the content of her words was very calm, "In order to learn skills, the sensitivity is adjusted too high, and the tears of girls are really low."

"Other people's bodies are not easy to use after all," Zhao Changqi sneered, "Is there a few legs or hands missing from your original body?"

Du Yan glanced at him slowly: "Is it in your ethics that being possessed of the body is a particularly terrifying thing?"

Zhao Changqi pretended to be relaxed: "According to what you said, you must be used to swapping bodies?"

"Yes," Du Yan answered him knowing that it was a test, "Let me change the question, if this body is not obtained by Du Yan's death first and then I occupy it, but I take a cell from her, How do you feel about being cloned in a lab and having the brain removed beforehand? Is that still unacceptable?"

Zhao Changqi has the answer in his heart, but he knows that this answer is not his correct answer, so he can only say: "Human cloning is also unacceptable to us."

"What about you?"

"My attitude doesn't matter."

Du Yan smiled, didn't speak, but took two shots with the basketball and made a provocative gesture towards him.Zhao Changqi put on a defensive posture, and Du Yan easily passed him with a few nimble left and right fake moves and scored easily.

The two played back and forth for more than a dozen times, but Zhao Changqi's two strokes soon became useless, so he simply gave up and stood aside to watch Du Yan play alone.But Du Yan didn't seem to feel bored, just kept trying again and again.

"Hey, buddy," a few people came over with basketballs, they should be playing basketball, four men, they should be in the same dormitory, "Come play together?"

Although the question was about Zhao Changqi, his eyes were honestly looking in Du Yan's direction.

Zhao Changqi just wanted to refuse, but Du Yan agreed straight away: "Okay."

Zhao Changqi didn't want to fight at first, but now there are only six of them here, so it's hard to refuse.He was naturally assigned to Du Yan's group, but in the process of playing, he subconsciously didn't like to cooperate with Du Yan. After losing points a few times, the person who joined their team reminded him: "Dude, pass the ball more, your girlfriend Three points are pretty accurate."

But Zhao Changqi didn't agree, that person was also sensible, and stopped talking, as if he felt that the two of them were having a quarrel.However, the cooperation between him and Du Yan was good. The two returned high fives after several goals. Gradually, Zhao Changqi became a foil.But that's fine, anyway, he doesn't care.

After playing for almost an hour, the boys gradually lost their physical strength. Zhao Changqi still had a slight advantage in the score. When the opponent was desperately trying to come back, Zhao Changqi suddenly stopped the game.

Because he found that Du Yan was a little tired and almost out of breath, but after she stopped, she gasped and said, "Continue...it's fun."

Zhao Changqi resolutely refused, and Du Yan saw what he was worried about, so she didn't insist, followed him back and got into a wheelchair.Zhao Changqi pushed her back.

Several boys seemed to be looking forward to it: "Leave a contact information, buddy, we will be together next time."

Zhao Changqi ignored them.

After walking away for a certain distance, Du Yan said: "Are you afraid that this body will be ruined by me?"

Zhao Changqi frowned, looking at the bruises on Du Yan's arm from several falls: "Yes, at least we won't treat ourselves like this."

Du Yan's physical strength was almost exhausted just now, and her face was almost pale, but she was very excited and still wanted to continue.Zhao Changqi has seen this situation many times before. In his report to Li Daiyuan, he believed that Du Yan was deliberately testing the limit of the human body, or in other words, experiencing the feeling of the human body reaching the limit.

Like humans, she may feel difficulty in breathing and body aches, but to humans, these feelings may be purely uncomfortable, because humans cannot surpass their own bodies, but to Du Yan now, it is just an experience— —It is like a driver experiencing the trembling and roaring of the engine when the car reaches the limit.

The human body may be just a tool for Du Yan.

This made him feel extremely uncomfortable—human beings treasure the sacredness of the body, but in Du Yan's case, it disappeared completely.

(End of this chapter)