Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 1026 Final Chapter (Complete Book)
"How do I remember... we seem to have been infected by that thing..." Maginot rubbed his forehead vigorously. The headache symptom was not only on Levi, but Maginot also felt a splitting headache. "Levi, do you see any changes in my body?"
"No...no..." Levi shook his head, "Then General, do you think I have mutated somewhere?"
"I can't tell." Maginot sat on the ground, his heart pounding. He was really confused for a moment... He thought he was dead, but now he has recovered miraculously, as if nothing had happened.
He tried his best to suppress the luck in his heart that he had survived the disaster, fearing that there would be some unexpected changes. He raised his head and looked around carefully - the command center was still the familiar command center, but the officers who had originally stayed here were sent out by him when the mutation incident just happened. Only he and Levi were left in the entire command center.
Levi climbed up reluctantly, picked up the communication terminal beside him, and said in surprise after just a glance: "General! Those... those officers and soldiers whose bodies had mutated have all returned to normal!"
"Everything recovered?" Maginot was stunned for a moment, staggered out of the command center, and looked in the direction of the Ark thoughtfully.
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The core area of the Ark, the overlapping space "Holy Ark".
The "bead" formed by the compressed meat ball began to spontaneously combust, and the crystal clear flame gradually eliminated the black inside the bead, turning it into a transparent color like an energy crystal... Ke Lan could feel that inside this crystallized bead, there was an extremely terrifying energy, so much so that he had never dared to remove the spatial barrier that imprisoned it, for fear that the energy inside would escape and cause unpredictable damage.
“0.035 units of God-level energy.” The Fool’s holographic projection said softly, “This is the completely ownerless God-level energy that was purified using the consciousness of tens of millions of people as fuel to neutralize the imprint.”
0.035 units of god-level energy may not sound like a lot, but if converted into conventional energy units, it would be an astronomical figure - you know, even the body of the Fool only consumed 0.0002 units of alien god energy. If these 0.035 units were used to charge the Star Destroyer, it would probably be enough for the Star Destroyer to start its strafing mode like a Gatling gun.
Of course, the prerequisite is that the launch mechanism of the star destroyer can withstand such violent energy impact.
"Is this what Hermes left for human civilization during his last waking moments?" Ke Lan stretched out his hand, and the crystallized bead slowly floated above his palm.
The crystal clear "flame" that looked like a special effect has disappeared, and the energy inside the bead has entered a relatively stable state... If it was a super bomb that could explode at any time in the last second, now it has become an "energy crystal" with an unimaginable reserve.
“He also left something else.” The Fool’s projection shook its head, and as the space around it twisted, a safe forged from Nino alloy appeared on the ground.
"What's this?"
Ke Lan condensed the power of space into a thin thread and drilled into the keyhole of the safe - this safe used a very old mechanical lock, which did not even have the self-destruct device that most confidential safes now require. Ke Lan directly used the power of space to crush the lock and lifted the lid of the box.
Lying in the black shock-proof sponge is a crystal chip only the size of a fingernail . On the surface of the chip is an etched metal label with only the letter "γ" on it.
This is the third letter of the Greek alphabet, but when this letter appears here, Ke Lan doesn’t understand what it means .
“The original gene code of the γ-type replicator.” The Fool said, “This is a new generation of modified humans that Hermes and his team secretly developed to replenish the lost population. Compared to the β-type replicator, the γ-type replicator has no genetic defects and can have the same lifespan as normal humans. Moreover, the genes also have the possibility of natural evolution... It only takes three to four generations for the offspring of the γ-type replicators to be fully integrated into the natural human population.”
"This can no longer be considered a clone..." Ke Lan walked over and picked up the safe containing the chip. "In this way, the population crisis that will erupt in the future can also be solved."
You should know that the "clones" created using this genetic coding are young and middle-aged people who meet the reproductive conditions from birth. As long as they are given the same rights as normal people and are implanted with basic common sense of human society and various life and work skills, even if they are not given false memories, they can quickly integrate into human society.
There may be a period of pain, but just like the new biotechnologies such as artificial embryo cultivation and human modification, once they are accepted by the public, the existence of γ-type replicators will soon become commonplace.
After all, this batch of clones has no genetic defects. Except for the missing childhood and adolescence, everything else is exactly the same as a naturally born human.
“In fact, after a large number of β-type clones were sacrificed in the battle at the Bronze City Ruins, Hermes and his men planned to put γ-type clones into production… but you acted faster than them, so they had to awaken the Tree of Destruction in advance.” said the Fool.
As the personality remaining in the core brain, no one knows better than him what the undead crew will do during this period of time.
"I have another question that I still don't have an answer to..." Ke Lan looked at the projection that looked exactly like him, "Who killed 'Pan' in the battle at the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City? "
“It’s me.” The Fool said, “After being corrupted, Pan gained the special ability of insight. He realized that you are actually one of the carriers of the Fool’s personality, not just a simple experimental subject. He originally planned to observe you for a while before telling Hermes and others this news. I had no choice but to kill him.”
"As for Hermes, Zeus and others, their bodies had already been corroded by then, and ordinary toxins were ineffective against them. Moreover, after Pan's death, they also became suspicious of the core brain, and even gave up some of the core brain's functions and shut down most of the core brain's permissions... I was able to appear here thanks to another carrier of the Fool personality who arrived at the Black Well and helped me unlock those closed permissions."
"The information dealer?"
"Yes."
"So...how is he now?"
"His transformation into a corpse was irreversible. After completing his final mission, he chose to render himself harmless."
"Harmless disposal?"
"Neutralize the energy of the alien god and directly erase the mark of that existence on yourself."
"What about the others?" Although Ke Lan had already guessed the fate of the intelligence dealer, he still couldn't help asking... Before hearing the answer with his own ears, he was always a little reluctant to accept his own guess.
"Like Hermes, he was annihilated by the energy released during the neutralization." The Fool's holographic projection said, "Nothing is left."
"Okay... then what should we do with the particles containing the corrosive meme that Hermes just released?"
"To be precise, those things have nothing to do with erosion. They are one of the special abilities Hermes gained after he became an eroded corpse, the 'plague'. After Hermes completely died, the plague was naturally lifted automatically."
"So, it's all over?"
“It’s all over.”
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Alpha Centauri, South Pole, polar ice cap.
“Click…”
A tiny crack appeared on the ice sheet.
“Ka-ka…”
The cracks began to gradually expand and spread in all directions.
The temperature above the Arctic Ocean has not changed, and remains at minus 87 degrees Celsius. However, there are signs of melting in the cracked areas of the ice sheet.
A black hexagonal stone pillar with a diameter of more than ten meters slowly rose from under the ice sheet and finally fixed at a height of one hundred and fifty meters.
Six cracks suddenly appeared on the edges of the hexagonal stone pillar, and an aura far more terrifying than the primitive species emanated from the interior of the stone pillar.
With the hexagonal stone pillar as the center, a bright red color covers the ice cap of the polar sea...
"Hmm... Is the lizard that was pressed under the glacier no longer on this planet?" A very ancient language sounded in the sky above the polar sea. "Eh... Those insects on this planet seem to have undergone some... interesting changes?"
