Civilization: Beyond Two Worlds

insect.

locust.

A spooky locust caught from Jurban.

At this moment, in the open space of the Komora West Airport in the White Mist World, in the plastic bag strengthened by the enchantment, it collided aimlessly, flying and crawling.

not dead.

Not killed by the rules that traverse the world and annihilate all life.

Kant walked over and asked, "How is it?"

Horus put away the barrel: "No aggressiveness, no purpose, just living."

Zhurban's swarms are orderly and respond to external stimuli. When they find food, they send them back to their underground lair. If there is no food, they devour metal and cement. Obviously, this group may have a social division of labor. , The locusts on the surface of Jurban shoulder the task that must be completed.

Even if they were caught by Kant in the bag, they were trying their best to gnaw and tear the plastic bag, and never stopped... And now, they are ramming around like headless flies.

Kant nodded and said, "Let's take a closer look."

Horus said solemnly: "Don't worry, these insects are not many and can't escape my sniping."

Kant smiled: "No need, this is my site."

He raised his toes and lightly tapped, and his spiritual power spread to the plastic bag along the ground. In an instant, the sturdy and flexible bag burst, and the flying locusts buzzed out and flew in all directions.

Kant stretched out his hand.

The void and transparent but existing space is twisted into an ever-changing Rubik’s cube. The locusts flying upwards fly below, and the locusts flying outwards crowd into a pile. The space changes wantonly in an elusive and incomprehensible state. Faceted body, countless roads, the direction has lost its meaning, all seemingly unpredictable and infinite roads will eventually have only one end, and that is Kant's will.

Kant stretched out his other hand and swiped outward. The locust swarms bound in the infinitely changing space separated one, and successfully flew out of the space labyrinth that is enough to make intelligent creatures mad.

But fell into another chaotic trap.

It vibrated its wings and flew hard, but in Horus' view, the locust stayed where it was, even though it seemed to be moving...but it was imprisoned by space.

Transformers felt an inexplicable shock. Although such a power was exerted on the little locusts, it was able to glimpse the leopard and appreciate the greatness of this power.

It murmured: "Father, you are slowly becoming the **** of this world."

Such power, even in the otherworld of swords and magic, is enough to be called a god.

Kant responded indifferently: "In addition to allowing me to throw stones better, there is no other use for the time being."

Unfortunately, it is limited to this deadly white fog world.

"Well, anyway, there is a new use." Kant added, "At least this ability makes me not too uncomfortable with this kind of bug..."

When facing this thing on the earth, it is still stunned, because there are too many, it will be impossible to kill, and it will be embarrassing. Ordinary methods are simply useless to use these things.

But in the white fog world, it's another matter. Even if tens of billions of locusts appear together, you can't even get close to him. Kant can easily compress the hundreds of thousands of tons of locust swarms into what looks like only football. Such a large volume, and then let it fall from the ground all the way to the depths of the sky.

With a wave of his hand, the locust flew in front of Horus, and the Iron Son was still inconvenient to move.

"Can you see anything?"

Horus' eyes showed invisible waves, and after a while, he shook his head and said, "Shortwave rays cannot penetrate it... This is unreasonable, and life forms shouldn't have such a large density."

Kant said slowly: "It's not a living creature...isn't it?"

Whether it is another world or a living creature on Earth, after coming to the White Mist World, it will be instantly inactivated without exception. Except for Kant, there is only one exception, and that is Horus.

The reason for this is because Horus is a mechanical life form with a body of steel, or whether it was born from the activation of the white mist element by Kant's power of the fire thief. Due to the lack of another sample comparison, it is not clear for the time being.

But now, there has been a third case.

This locust.

Kant's left index finger and **** point outward, and the locust suddenly breaks from the middle, and the silver liquid bursts out, and the particles are suspended in the air, turning into silver-gray **** under the action of gravity.

He took a closer look and saw that it was not composed of tiny gears, levers and metal components as imagined, but it still looked like a living thing, with wet, irregularly shaped internal organs and cavities. If it does not conform to the laws of biology, this problem is beyond the class.

He is not an entomologist, and he does not know how to conduct research and experiments.

"what?"

Horus on the side was surprised, and then said: "Father, please give me a live one."

Kant waved his hand, and another little white locust flew to Horus. Iron Son twisted it in his hand, and with two fingers, with a puff, it burst into pulp on the spot.

Disgusting, disgusting.

Too insignificant.

After I launch a dimensionality reduction attack with a book, shoot dead cockroaches or other bugs, I just leave it alone and treat it as if nothing happened, and the book accidentally fell there.

Then, of course, a housekeeping aunt came to clean up.

Horus didn't say anything, but even twisted, his eyes glowing faintly.

Kant asked, "What's wrong?"

"These juices ... are a mixture of powdered inorganic substances soaked in a viscous liquid of unknown composition, including metal oxides and metal chips."

Kant thought for a while: "Is there only these? Are there no inorganic substances such as calcium carbonate and silicon dioxide?"

Horus said, "No, that's all."

Kant gave Horus two more and continued to squeeze.

Still so.

"They were eating around the street lights before," Kant said. "It's not surprising to have these things in their stomachs. The question is, are they digesting these metals and gaining energy?"

It's bizarre to think about.

"How can lifeforms obtain energy from metallic iron? Besides, it is still a small lifeform." Horus shook his head and said, "I don't think this is their food. Maybe they are just collecting rather than eating, and they can collect It's not just food, it could be material, social insects behave this way."

Having said that, Iron Son paused for a while, and then said, "Father can try it out."

Kant nodded, then separated out some locusts, each of them compared the weight through spatial means, and jumped out of five that were obviously "half-saturated", and then reached out and grabbed them.

A piece of cement shattered on the ground, a piece of reinforced concrete flew from the wall, and a piece of steel cracked from the iron gate, which was placed in front of these silver-gray locusts. In Zhurban, these worms covered every inch of buildings, vehicles and street lights, and now, But he didn't see these things in front of his eyes.

Kant threw out another piece of pork, equally uninterested.

They were just flying aimlessly, not knowing what they were looking for.

Horus said, "Perhaps, Father, they don't eat meat either. In Jurban, the pork you throw back into the ground is just as well collected."

Kant asked: "Where does the energy for their activity come from?"

Iron Son said solemnly, "Maybe, it's beyond our imagination."

Kant stared at the locusts that were still buzzing. If these things were manufactured rather than hatched, they would be ingenious and vivid, able to survive in a world of white fog, not eating metal and cement, nor eating flesh and blood. , then where does it get its energy from, and what is its purpose... There are more and more fogs, and the answers after the fog are more and more disturbing.

He was silent for a moment: "I hope human scientists can make more discoveries."

After all, he is not a professional, nor is the Iron Son.

"But it will take a wait."

The Frenchman's warship will immediately head to Cape Verde, an archipelago country in the west of Africa. A military attache from the Chinese embassy is waiting there. After receiving the sample, it will immediately rush to Djibouti.

Then take a military plane from the Djibouti logistics base and fly directly to the Biological Research Institute somewhere in the west.

This will take at least seven or eight hours.

"It's better to save a little time." Kant said, "I'll send these over first."

Although it has been clearly stated before that the transfer cannot carry living creatures, and now carrying half a bag of live locusts back, it is somewhat unreasonable, and it may cause some minor troubles more or less.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

In the face of this unknown, mysterious and thorny enemy, seven or eight hours are invaluable.

He divided the swarm in two and put one of the swarms in a bag.

He took another iron box, covered the locusts inside, and sealed it for reinforcement.

Horus asked, "Father, what about these?"

Kant opened the space door and stepped into the dark portal: "Be prepared."

Dodged and crossed back to the community home, shuttled back again, and returned to China.

It was already dark, and it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

Kant made a call, and Qin Mengjin answered immediately, "Mr. Kant."

"I'm at home." Kant said, "let someone pick me up and bring the suitcase."

The liaison officer immediately said: "Is the bug... dead? It's okay to die, I'll..."

"Live."

"Ah?" Qin Mengjin said in surprise, "You didn't say..."

"Yeah, they're not dead." Kant paused and said faintly, "Perhaps, they're not the kind of living creatures we understand."

This sentence made the liaison officer digest for three seconds.

"Hold on, they'll be upstairs in five minutes."

"Have you stayed here?"

"No, stand by in the underground parking lot."

Kant hung up the phone, opened the curtains, and took a look.

He and Xiaoman's house are neighbors, and the two bedroom is separated by a wall, but Xiaoman's room has a balcony, so the two of them can see each other through the window, but sometimes they still lie on the bed and play childish games like knocking on the wall.

The light was still on, Kant thought about it and decided not to disturb her.

He stood up and walked to the living room. Three minutes later, there was a light knock at the door, the phone received a message, Kant opened the door, and outside stood two men in sportswear and cotton hats, who looked like Like a big brother who runs at night, but his eyes are condensed and focused, unlike ordinary people.

The guy in the back was holding a heavy box. The man in front met Kant, saluted, and took out a handwritten card with the same identification code sent by Qin Mengjin.

The photos are also correct.

After seeing Kant nodded and turned sideways, the two walked into the room and said in a low voice, "Mr. Kang, we have been ordered to carry out the mission. You don't need to explain anything to me. According to discipline, I will not ask you anything."

Kant reached over the box, put it on the shoe cabinet, opened it, put the plastic bag in, closed it, and tapped it lightly, and the plastic bag inside shattered and disintegrated.

"Tell your superior that the contents inside may damage the box. Be careful to cover it with a bigger box at any time. Don't open the box until you are ready. You only need to convey this."

The two of them were not surprised or curious at all, and they didn't know if they were loyal and focused, or whether they were just taking it easy.

"Excuse me, is there anything else I need to pay attention to?"

"No, what should be said has been explained on the phone."

Then the two comrades said their goodbyes and left, and Kant sent them to the corridor. The man made a kind gesture, indicating that there was no need to send them any more: "Goodbye, Mr. Kang."

Just then, the door next to it opened with a click.

These two kind-hearted comrades were like frightened rabbits, and subconsciously went to lift their clothes. Kant stretched out his hands and pressed them on their shoulders, stopping them from drawing guns.

Xiaoman's head poked out cautiously.

"Don't get excited, this is my friend." Kant said, "knows about me."

The two were relieved, but still said: "Sorry, but I still have to report."

Kant stared and said, "What are you doing out, what if you are a bad guy?"

Xiaoman snorted: "Didn't I see you?"

Kant shook his head and didn't take this to heart. Xiaoman was an insider, and Uncle Wang would definitely report it. There are only advantages and no disadvantages. It is better to be protected by the state than to be ignorant and malicious. It doesn't matter what the reports say.

He looked at Xiaoman with a curious look on his face: "These two are comrades who serve the people."

"Oh." Xiaoman looked at the two of them curiously and whispered, "Dragon group?"

Kant nodded Xiaoman's forehead and pushed her: "Okay, stop playing with this joke."

The two comrades winked and said goodbye consciously.

Xiaoman closed the door of his house and pushed Kant back to his house with a curious look on the baby's face: "What's the matter, you still have a box, did you give some drawings to the country?"

what drawings.

Kant shrugged and said, "It's just some gadgets."

Kant didn't want Xiaoman to know too much. In any case, all the people in a city disappeared or something... Don't let her worry about this kind of thing.

Xiaoman's expression changed slightly and nodded, "I understand, I understand."

Kant squinted at her: "So, it's already this time, why are you still not sleeping?"

"Don't sleep!" Xiaoman snorted, "Come, accompany me to cultivate immortals tonight."

"Double repair."

"Pooh."

Looking at the girl's expectant eyes, Kant hesitated for a moment.

Xiaoman immediately captured this emotion: "Is there something serious?"

Kant thought for a while and sent a message to the king: "Do you need trucks and supplies now?"

He quickly got a reply: "No need for now, my brother, it's already night, our truck driver is tired after a busy day, driving at night is very dangerous, we are counting the nationals who have moved in and arrived today, and choose the large People with motor vehicle driving experience, and let them take a good rest and supplement nutrition, and now there is no shortage of supplies, you don’t have to worry too much.”

Kant thought for a while and replied: "Okay, pay close attention to the movement of the locusts, and notify me immediately if there is any problem."

"Don't worry, buddy, you should have a good rest."

Kant was relieved. Now the locust swarms have to be carefully guarded, but he does not need to go to the vicinity to manually monitor. Although the optical satellites in the sky are interfered, the interference pattern is also a means of positioning.

In this world, he does not need to fight alone.

Don't be in a hurry to be a lone hero to save the world.

Taking back the phone, he smiled at Xiaoman: "Okay, I haven't played like this for a long time."

Uncle Wang was not at home, and Kang's father and mother were far away in Africa. From childhood to adulthood, for Kant and Xiaoman, the days when both parents were away was a fantastic time, like a holiday.

On such days, I buy delicious drinks in advance, and then turn on all the lights in the room at night, throw snacks all over the floor, open several bottles of Coke, the TV is on, the computer is on, what do you want to do? Play whatever you want to play... The fun at that time is rarely reminiscent of it now.

Then let's be immortal.

Bring snacks, use the oven to arrange a late-night snack, pour Fat House Happy Water, and play a battle game.

First it was switch, then PS4, and then mobile games. Now Kant has been strengthened over and over again, and his reaction ability has been greatly enhanced. He won Xiaoman and yelled. Finally, he was extremely bored. He sat in front of the TV and watched boring TV shows. Complaining about the stupid logic of dog blood dramas.

Until Xiaoman was sleepy and snuggled up to him.

She half-dreamed and said, "It's good to be like this every day, when will you be back..."

Kant sighed in his heart, with complicated and incomprehensible emotions, and finally said softly: "On the way."

Xiaoman hit him with a smile and slowly fell asleep.

Kant hesitated for a moment, then gently hugged her shoulders, still watching the boring TV series, the separation of men and women on the screen, life and death, just listening to the sound.

Most importantly, the sound of the sleepy breathing of the girl beside him made him feel calm.

Until it was dawn, the buzzing sound of the phone called him back.

"Hello?" Kant said. "Any results from the anatomical study?"

"Not yet." Qin Mengjin's voice was solemn, "But something more serious has happened. Today, it was only discovered at dawn on the Biagun side that overnight, a large number of people in the towns near Zhu'erban disappeared."

Kant's face changed suddenly: "Has the locust swarm moved?"

"This is the most terrifying thing. Satellites show that the locust swarms in Jurban have not migrated on a large scale."

"so…"

"I'm afraid it came out of the ground."

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PS1: Update update... Damn, it rained suddenly, and we have confirmed a few more cases here, yo, the epidemic control in the whole province is gradually stable, and this side is actually going upstream...