As Lui and Angel had guessed, this planet was a completely divided land.

In other words, this is a laboratory that has been deliberately created for single-blind experiments.

According to historical records, the sentinel race is the product of human mutation, which is true.

In the long history of human evolution, the creator accidentally made a joke on the earthlings, allowing humans to come into contact with the concept of the spiritual network for the first time - although the earthlings at that time did not realize the connection.

This joke came and went quickly, the proportion of sentinels in the crowd was very small, and even the possibility of having offspring was not very high.

But even so, Sentinel's spiritual network still caught the attention of some people.

They found a way to trap the existing sentinel, or deceived them here, to open up territory and settle down and start a family.

A collective memory inheritance like Silois is only a minority in the universe after all, and most human memories are short-lived and fragile.

One generation remembers, two generations blur, and three generations forget.

The past becomes a story, a story becomes a legend, and a legend becomes a myth.

Memories are slowly lost and reconstructed in this way.

"Don't you suspect that the Federation wants to manipulate people's mental network?" Dong Yang smiled sarcastically, "You guessed it right."

This is one of the many experimental bases.

Sentinels are mentally sensitive, and their emotions are easily influenced by the outside world, and the guide is the only existence that can control the sentinel—through the mental network, one-on-one.

Suddenly one day, someone came up with a genius idea:

If a guide's mental power is strong enough, can he control all the sentries at the same time?

Once such an idea takes root, it begins to radiate virally.

Some propose to transform the sentinel; some propose to transform the guide; some propose to combine the genes of the sentinel and guide to see if a new breakthrough can be found.

"...Are you?"

Huo Wen's eyes widened, looking at the playmate he grew up with in disbelief.

I thought her hometown was weird enough, but now it seems that even the existence will become weird, Huo Wen can't accept it for a while.

"No." Dong Yang shook his head, and the hands of the two names that were clasped in the air were even harder, but there was a feeling of hitting cotton with a punch, with only empty bitterness.

"One half-failed experiment survived the transformation."

Dongyang gritted his teeth: "It's a wizard whose spiritual power has been expanded, Chi Dong."

winter.

Lu Yi, who caught a glimpse of the inscription in the lower right corner of Dongyang's body, immediately understood.

Chi Dong, Chu Yang, the names of these two people are linked to Dong Yang, and the relationship between them is clear.

"The experiment was unsuccessful, but in an accident, Chi Dong discovered the secret of the entire planet and was hunted down by relevant personnel... This planet was destroyed in the process."

A large number of special rays leaked, but almost all those who were infected would not live long.

"Wait, what are you then?"

"Me?" Dongyang smiled self-deprecatingly, "I am the genetically programmed descendant of her and a sentinel."

Jessica was silent for a while, then pointed to the petri dishes around her and asked, "Aren't these all the same as you..."

"No, that's not my siblings." Dong Yang's expression was a little weird, "I am the only experimental body synthesized from their genes, and they didn't even know when they extracted the genes... It's just that before the planet was about to be destroyed, they Noticing this truth, I tried my best to send the petri dish containing 'me' to the outer atmosphere."

And then used up the last part of his life to leave this letter.

I don't know if there will be a day when the sun returns.

I don't know if it will be seen by a specific person.

Even if there is only such a faint hope, I have written so much without hesitation.

It's a wonderful feeling.

There is no consciousness of her parents in Dongyang's memory, and the only one who can be called "mother" by her is the one who picked her up from the universe.

When she was a child, she even thought bitterly that if her biological parents were still alive, they must have given up on her, and she had no need to look for such parents - but "mother" would take the trouble to repeat this passage in her ear. The story before she was born, and even when she was dying, she was still advising "if you have a chance, try to find a way to follow the clues".

It may be that the identity of a pirate has made the "mother" witness too many life and death, but put more emphasis on emotional connection than ordinary citizens - you must know that this is a baby who can theoretically be separated from the existence of blood parents from birth to growth, if not The traditional ethical concept has not completely disappeared, and the new generation does not even have the concept of parents.

Dongyang has imagined countless possibilities, those that were deliberately abandoned, those that were unintentionally lost, those that were persecuted by the environment...

But she never imagined that her blood "mothers" didn't even know her existence at the moment of death.

And after knowing it, he did not hesitate to give her a chance to survive.

"Some people..." Angel played with Dongyang's words just now, his eyes wandering around, "Ha! It seems that we are not the first to know about it!"

The message behind Dongyang seemed to have reached the time, and flickered a few times, then began to shrink inward from both ends, and disappeared with a swipe.

Lu Yi asked, "Do you know who it is?"

The most likely culprit now is undoubtedly the Federation, but for some reason, Lu Yi always felt as if he had overlooked something, and the feeling of anxiety in his heart became stronger.

"We were looking in the wrong direction."

Dongyang shook his head and did not answer the question directly.

"...Chi Dong didn't say it." She followed this sentence immediately.

I don't know why, it's awkward for her to call her titular "mother".

Dongyang hesitated for a moment, but chose to call him by his first name.

"What do you mean?" Huo Wen didn't understand.

Dongyang squatted down, picked up a small stone from the ground, and carefully scratched a few scratches on the ground, stroke by stroke, until the pattern was fully revealed, and she stopped.

Louis was silent for a moment when he saw this pattern.

It was a small tower.

"The Sentinels have sensitive five senses, so they must usually live in buildings called 'Towers', managed by 'Towers' and surrounded by white noise - to protect their sophisticated five senses. The 'Towers' cannot be created until combined with a matching guide. Carry out tasks and move freely.”

"But we didn't see the tower at all when we came..." Jessica was stunned.

She didn't participate in the group's previous speculation about the power, so she didn't know what the back of the tower meant, and she didn't think of this level for the first time.

"The 'Tower' was destroyed." Dongyang explained with difficulty, "During the last riot, it was destroyed by someone."

"Look at—"

Angel picked up the old newspaper, turned to the upper left corner, and found that every page would be printed with a tall white tower watermark, which seemed to be carrying some kind of marking.

"It's here too."

Lu Yi quickly understood what Angel meant, her gaze subconsciously locked around, and she soon found that the water glass and even the coaster had such marks.

The marks are too small, and there is no special uniform shape: straight, slanted, black, white... Not rigid in any form, it even makes people feel that this is an ordinary decorative painting.

And for too long, many complete tower shapes are blurred, and most of them can't think of anything at first glance, but as long as you have the image of the tower in your mind, you will find that—

That is the tower.

Other than that, nothing else.

"This used to be... a country where the state and religion were united."

The unity of politics and religion is a very typical political term in modern times. Compared with the four words mentioned by Chi Dong in his letter, Dongyang prefers to use the vocabulary he is accustomed to to explain this concept.

A theocracy, or religion, is above the federation.

Originally, there were few religions with the "totem" as a totem. Coupled with the appearance of "Divancotti", the Babel Tower religion was already on the suspect list.

It's just that most of them came forward from the Federation, and the direct and indirect connection with the major forces was only the Federation...so that they subconsciously leaned towards the government.

This trip, to be honest, both Lu Yi's side and Zong Shili's faction are all going to take advantage of the Federation.

Unexpectedly, when it came to the end, it was the shadow of the Tower of Babel that popped out.

"This is really..." Angel burst out laughing, his eyes sinking with a strong sense of inquiry, "It's interesting."

"You're from the 13th, right?"

Dongyang squatted down and buckled the nameplate of the base—it was originally welded, but time has long corroded the steel embroidery, and it can be buckled with a single button.

Her thumb touched the string of symbols at the bottom of the name "Dongyang", and slowly spit out the last message.

"Part of the experimental language here is also an independent writing system."

Dongyang revealed the symbol in his hand: "This should be the meaning of number ten."

There are a total of thirteen laboratories, and the difference between No. 13 and No. 10 is so different that Lui has every reason to suspect that each planet has its own operating system.

People on the 13 planets, living or dead, knowingly or unknowingly, are involved in a grand social simulation experiment.

A chill suddenly ran up her back—if it wasn't for knowing the exact number of experiments involved, who would doubt that any ordinary citizen was not involved in this social simulation experiment?

The uniqueness of Armie, the uniqueness of the university town, and even the laws of each planet's independent planet - what is the difference between this unknowing number 10?

***

at the same time.

Federal Sanxingdui Institute.

"You seem to like the 'Winter Sun' experiment."

A new researcher looked at the only half-aged free-roaming child in the research room, wearing a research white coat all day, digging into the database with a serious face to look through various confidential materials, and couldn't help laughing.

Finally, after entering the database for the tenth time to get something and encountering Dawn, the new researcher finally couldn't help but accost her.

"It's obviously an experiment that failed a long time ago, and you still look so excited? ... This is the fourth time, right? As far as I remember, you have already gone through this pile of materials for the fourth time, right?"

Liming raised his head and closed the document, his voice calm: "No, I'm not looking at the document."

"Then what are you looking at?" The new researcher was surprised.

Dawn responded with a smile: "Story."

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