Lu Mingfei Returns from Monster Hunting

Chapter 255 Artificial Man (4.2k)

No. 023 is a city whose buildings are no different from a maze.

However, this point of the maze is not reflected in its ground buildings, but in its underground buildings.

The underground space of the city is almost hollowed out, like a depleted mine.

After passing through the hidden underground passage, the few remaining guests followed Bunin to the central city.

The guests were slightly or seriously injured.

Dog barking faintly echoed in the complex passage.

Anna turned on the flashlight hanging under the gun to illuminate it. She was also very confused about this place.

"Only dogs, no people." Lu Mingfei whispered.

Very strange, they only encountered the GRU fighters at the beginning, and then the trackers were replaced by dragon dogs. In principle, these dragon dogs are controlled by someone, but the controller has never appeared.

The hallucination never left the crowd, as if there were footsteps in all directions, like countless soldiers wearing military boots patrolling past.

"Don't be too surprised whatever happens for a while," Bunin whispered.

He pulled down a gate hidden in the wall.

Maxim pushed the last few bullets into the chamber: "It's an honor to visit your most precious collection, Mr. Bunin. I hope it will surprise us."

The booming roar resonated below, as if the ancient soul began to sing loudly.

An ancient train slowly rose in front of everyone's eyes. It was the train they took when they came.

But everyone's expressions were surprised and unbelievable when they saw it.

It's not because of how miraculous Bunin's behavior of hiding the train underground is, but because the train is brightly lit, clearly carrying people.

"My God!"

Maxim and Anna cried out. They thought it was the service staff that Bunin had arranged on the train in advance, and they were shocked by his foresight.

However, in fact, Bunin's expression at this time was very serious. He tremblingly hugged his daughter, feeling an indescribable fear.

Seeing this, Lu Mingfei frowned, put Zero on the ground, and walked towards the end of the road with a short arc knife.

Under the brilliant car lights, a group of tall figures were approaching them.

There was a heavy click of military boots, and there were more than a dozen dragon dogs surrounding these people, but because of the angle, their faces could not be seen clearly.

Ambushes that have been ambushed long ago?

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath, and just about to speak, the leader opposite suddenly stopped, took a cigarette in his mouth, and lowered his head to light the fire.

The moment the fire was lit, Lu Mingfei was stunned for two seconds for no reason.

It was exactly Auchinets' face.

Oginets smiled kindly: "Long time no see, my old friends."

"No, you're not Auchinets." Lu Mingfei stared at him closely, and his intuition told him that the person in front of him was definitely not Auchinets.

The real Oginets should still be at the auction venue, and no one has seen him brought out.

Oginets shook his head and smiled, but what he said was a little palpitating: "It will be there soon. When the main body disappears, the backup version will automatically take the name and status of the main body."

Those who followed him took off their masks one after another, and one after another familiar faces were revealed under the light.

Even those who died in the auction.

"Dear Bunin, you have been worried that someone will come to snatch the goods after the auction is over, right?"

Watched by Auchinets' tender eyes, Bunin sweated nervously.

"But it's a pity that your guess was a bit inaccurate~ No one came to grab the goods. The boss' purpose is to silence them all here."

"Have we all lost our value?" Bunin asked tremblingly, judging from his appearance, he probably knew something inside.

"Mr. Bunning should know Scottish Sheepdogs, right? Raise a few sheepdogs, and they can easily herd hundreds of sheep for you. The owner doesn't have to do anything, just feed the sheepdogs. But when the sheepdogs are old If they can’t run anymore, the owner will replace them, the owner is still the owner, the flock is still the flock, only the shepherd dogs will change.”

"We are shepherd dogs, and the value of our existence is to help the boss make money..."

"Wow! The guess is completely correct!"

Oginets applauded happily.

"The past few years have been hard, don't you? Every dollar you earn has been used to buy time. As long as you don't have enough time, the auction will continue to be held, and your value will also change accordingly. Less and less as time goes by.”

His tender words spoke the cruel and cold truth.

"Although there are ordinary people who are more humble and unaware of you, the master does not have the habit of taking money from ordinary people, so you help the master earn money from ordinary people and then hand it over to him, so that the master does not have to do it himself. The wealth of Russia can be obtained."

Having said that, Auchinets suddenly sighed.

"But you are old. Serum can give you a young body but not a young mind. If a person has not lived enough, he will work hard enough and desperately, but when they have lived enough and see through the world, the world All material pleasures will gradually lose their appeal to them, and they will lose motivation to work in such a state of mind.”

"The owner won't receive the money then, oh, that's too bad, isn't it?"

A long speech seemed to be a godsend, but Lu Mingfei understood the meaning of his words.

The guests of City No. 023 are both greedy for life and loathing life in their hearts.

They will decisively end their lives at any time, just like Vishniak who committed suicide.

And now Oginets, the Vishniak standing behind him, they are completely different from the Oginets and Vishniak that Lu Mingfei has seen.

Not only were they young, but they were also full of energy. They spoke with high spirits, much more enthusiastic than what Lu Mingfei knew.

Eyes full of restlessness and desire of youth.

"The boss wants to use you to take over all the families?" Bunin's voice calmed down, and his eyes were not friendly.

Oginets also nodded without hesitation: "Of course, you have lived for too long. Most of you have no relatives living in this world. It is not difficult to replace you."

He said slowly: "The opposite of life is not death, but forgetting. When you are forgotten by the living, it is true death."

"And then you're going to replace them every year and continue this shameless auction? And then get replaced by your backup?"

Lu Mingfei's sneer interrupted their conversation.

He sneered: "It's so sad that you still want to be a dog for the master you say, knowing that this is the end!"

"If you can't run on the grassland, the shepherd dog will be worthless, even if it will be replaced by a new shepherd dog in the end, it is better to kill the old shepherd dog with all your strength."

"Where is your master?!"

Oginets shook his head, shaking the ashes with his fingers holding the cigarette.

"No one knows, unless you have enough capital to get him to come forward, oh, how about asking dear Mr. Bunin, maybe he knows?"

Everyone turned to look at Bunin.

But the man just hugged his trembling daughter and shook his head frantically.

"It's a demon. No one knows who he is or where he is. If I did know, I would be dead."

"Even if we replace us, you will just continue to be that guy's slaves! What's the point of trying to make money just to live a few more years!"

Anna raised her rifle and pointed it at the girl behind Oginets' backup, because that was another Anna.

The crosshair of the red dot sight wobbled between the eyebrows of that fake Anna, but that Anna didn't dodge or dodge at all, and her eyes were as calm as a robot.

Seeing this, the fake Oginets covered his face and laughed out loud.

Two seconds later, the laughter turned into uncontrollable laughter.

"Stupid, so stupid! You who live in the world, how can you understand the idea of ​​our backup living in the factory? You think you are slaves, but if you don't die, we don't even have the qualifications to be slaves! "

His gentle expression suddenly became ferocious, and his voice changed from laughter to a hoarse roar.

"Haven't you already lived enough? Then why don't you hurry up and die? Let us back-ups breathe the air and see the real sunshine! This is the last contribution you can make!"

The fake Vishniak also growled: "What are slaves? We are more inferior tools than slaves, even worse than ghosts, and we were born to be used."

"If you are kind people, please give us the chance to survive." A red-haired girl who looked exactly like Sonia said.

Their tones were mixed with anger and pleading, and the words they spoke were deafening.

I don't know how many years of their pain have been hidden in it.

Lu Mingfei silently looked at those crazy and distorted faces, and suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with their requests.

In City 023 at this time, except for him and a few others, everyone else is a ghost wandering in hell.

That Mr. Bondarev opened a passage for them to go to the world, and these people will frantically eliminate their competitors and escape from this ghost place by stepping on their corpses.

After a long time, the fake Auchinets returned to calm, no longer roaring loudly, but looked at Bunin and the others with a cold smile.

"Misters and ladies, do you think each of you is your original self?"

After saying this, the guests stared at each other in horror.

The crowd that had gathered together suddenly dispersed, and everyone instinctively grasped the weapons in their hands.

"This is a divorce plan! Don't believe that guy's nonsense!" Maxim yelled, "Everyone here is old friends! How can old friends misidentify each other?"

These words were recognized by many people present, and the originally somewhat separated teams slowly came together again.

Seeing this, the fake Auchinets still sneered: "Do you really remember all your past clearly? How much can a person remember in a hundred-year life? Are some things already blurred? Ten How many classmates and girls I met when I was 20 years old can’t think clearly?”

After hearing Auchinets' question, everyone was stunned for a moment. Their expressions showed doubts, as if they were really thinking about their past.

"The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that one cannot step into the same river twice. Because when you step into the second time, the water in the river is no longer the same as before, but the river remains the same. The original look."

The words Oginets uttered echoed in everyone's ears like the whisper of a devil.

"It's the same with you sheepdogs, every morning you wake up, you're dead yesterday. You think you're still the same person you were yesterday, it's just memory playing tricks on you, and memory is a thing that replicates more than anything else Simple, especially the memories of you old people."

"Think about it carefully, each of you has used the master's serum. It is true that the serum can rejuvenate you, but in that process, each of you will be insane, right? That is the gap where you are most likely to be replaced !",
The fake Oginets smiled and said: "Although there are still a small part of you who are the original body, it is because those people are strong and greedy enough. As for those who have long lost their desire for life, they have been replaced. .”

Lu Mingfei listened to him in silence.

He had heard the same words from Chu Zihang.

The human brain is an old hard disk that is easily degaussed. When you heal the trauma of the past and reconcile with the person you hated the most, are you still you?
He was suddenly a little confused, and it was difficult to remember his past clearly.

The memory of childhood in my mind seems to be real, but it seems to be artificially added after false Oginets said.

He couldn't remember the year his parents left him, and he couldn't remember why his parents took him to settle in which city when he was a child.

And the strangest thing is that even though those in Kassel College said that his parents are of S-class blood, his uncle is an ordinary person.

Dragon bloodlines are generally passed down from ancestors.

It is impossible for a certain generation of brothers to have two brothers, one of which is of mixed race and the other of which is not.

For this reason, Lu Mingfei even suspected that his parents were artificial hybrids, but he always felt that the answer was a little bit far from the truth.

Now the false Oginets words seem to explain the relationship between his parents, uncle and him.

But right now he doesn't have so much time to think.

Holding the double knives, he watched the fake Auchinez quietly, waiting for a suitable opportunity to subdue the leading uniform with a thunderous force.

"Yes, my dear Auchinets, but life is not so empty and empty as you say."

Bunin gently stroked Christina's long hair and whispered.

"In any corner of the world, at any moment, if you love someone, that is the proof that you are alive!"

He pressed a button on the wall, and there was the sound of a cannonball being loaded from the train.

Dark and deep muzzles protruded from both sides of the train, aiming at the group of "backup products".

Lu Mingfei turned his head to see how many guns were facing him, and then looked at Bunin.

"So this is your plan? Except you and your daughter, everyone else must die, right?"

The installation of weapons on the train must have been prepared by Bunin a long time ago, but the people they aimed at were not only the "backup products" but also "guests" like them.

Bunin still stared at the daughter in his arms.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lu, you saved our lives, but as long as a living person leaves here today, Christina and I must flee until the day we die."

"You don't believe that you can get out unscathed, even with us."

Bunin smiled bitterly: "Because I know that even if I finish my work, the boss will not allow me to leave."

(End of this chapter)