Chapter 34: Civilization Watcher (The Unlucky Version)

"Patching the cracks in the body, that's simple. Just apply patches."

Nano-scale black-red threads were enough to make "gene limiters," and repairing Firefly's battered body was even easier.

The damaged organ tissues, bones, meridians, and muscle tissues... were all "patched" by Meng Yi one by one.

The second stage of the surgery took less than two hours in total, not even one-fifth of what was needed to cover and capture every one of Firefly's cells.

The black-red thin layer covering Firefly's body surface was gradually recovered by Meng Yi, and the azure cracks on the girl's skin closed and healed.

The Selection Dungeon: Biohazard worldview did not exist in the "Imaginary Space" to "generously" provide unlimited "Imaginary Energy" supply.

Meng Yi had never come into contact with an "extraordinary energy system" and could only absorb external nutrients to obtain energy for bodily activities.

Relying on Firefly's own human digestion and absorption to replenish the excessive "water" lost in the "vessel" would take forever.

If you're going to save someone, save them all the way; if you're going to send a Buddha, send them to the West.

Since he had already helped her make a "gene limiter" and repair the broken "vessel," he might as well finish the job.

Meng Yi acted as a high-efficiency conversion device, using biochemical tentacles to pierce into the giant nutrient storage tank while connecting other biochemical tentacles to Firefly's limbs and bones.

Nutrients were super-absorbed via the "Virus Progenitor" and then used to charge Firefly with "vitality."

Receiving external supplies, Firefly's broken cell telomeres were re-linked, and the burned-out ends began to grow gradually.

Don't look at the term "vitality" as mysterious; in the final analysis, it was still in the microscopic realm at the cellular level.

Extending telomere ends to increase theoretical lifespan, stimulating cell division, replacing worn-out old cells with new ones, and performing maintenance and repairs based on the philosophical concept of the "Ship of Theseus."

Meng Yi would not overly praise the "Technology System" or "Psionic System."

Nor would he belittle the "Idealist System," "Concept System," "Rule System," "Magic System," "Weird System," "Fantasy System," "Cultivation System"...

There is a sequence in hearing the Dao, and there is a specialty in the arts.

Different systems have different sequences in the fields they step into at different stages, but there is no distinction between high and low.

In his understanding, once a certain level is reached, various systems can theoretically achieve "one method leads to all, ten thousand methods are clear" by using a point to drive the whole, constructing a relative "Omnipotent Domain."

Cannot achieve "relative omnipotence"?

Then sorry, a biased cripple walking on one leg, no matter how big the volume, is just a pig fattened for slaughter.

Time passed, and there were ten hours left before the Selection Dungeon ended.

Firefly's three surgeries took Meng Yi a total of fifteen hours, and the illness of this "life-risking player" was completely cured by Meng Yi.

The time consumed was longer than expected, so when he noticed signs of Firefly regaining consciousness midway, Meng Yi added a little more high-concentration anesthetic.

Time was tight, and he couldn't stay in the laboratory waiting for Firefly to wake up.

Meng Yi instructed the "Artificial Intelligence: Red Queen" to tell Firefly the precautions he had already explained once she woke up, then he withdrew all biochemical virus derivatives and hurried out of the laboratory.

He was going to complete a great plan, and also to verify a speculation he had been thinking about for a long time.

He found Alex, who was idle and whose style was completely out of place with the Umbrella underground hive.

The hooded man had grown up; with money in his pocket, his mentality had changed drastically.

Alex, who couldn't go out to be a loafer while stuck in a high-tech place, had transformed into a "rich brother" addicted to the internet, and his spending was incredibly lavish.

When he learned about this from the "Red Queen" at the time, Meng Yi was both angry and amused.

After pondering it, tipping a female streamer is tipping, and tipping Umbrella is also tipping; why not support the technological progress of his own company?

Thus, Meng Yi instructed the "Red Queen" to use AI technology to create a large batch of lifelike electronic girlfriends, which completely bewildered Alex.

Live-streaming female streamers, intimate big sisters who chat 24 hours a day...

The identity backgrounds were fabricated to be as miserable as possible, for example, the mature big sister's "family is poor, mother is sick, younger brother is studying, I just started and am not familiar with it; my ex-husband was abusive and a gambler, I have a daughter and no income; my siblings all rely on me, my business failed and I cry every day; I had no choice but to step into the live-streaming path, hoping for little brother's care..."

There was nothing Alex couldn't think of that the "Artificial Intelligence: Red Queen" couldn't do.

Big data retrieval showed that Alex, who came from an orphanage, had an "XP system" that craved maternal love and had nowhere to hide.

The pervasive electronic paper people fooled the young man completely.

Alex, blinded by lust, gradually lost himself in the sounds of "big brother~," "husband~," and "little brother~."

In just over ten days, the ten million US dollars that had just been deposited into his card were spent by the forgetful Alex.

Such a pit... ahem, such a great and thoughtful plan, of course, couldn't just "take care of" Umbrella's tech geeks and otaku.

The younger generation of America was being massively eroded by the "Red Queen's" "Paper Person Plan."

If the fat pigs of America, ahem, the top donors wanted to meet offline and ask the streamers to meet,

That was easy to handle. Just modify the clone technology a little, and a "B. O. W. Modified Tyrant" would be enough to rush to the set and deal with multiple "sponsors (big suckers)."

Meng Yi used Umbrella's highest authority to open Alex's private room without notice.

Hearing the movement of the door opening, the hooded man erupted with astonishing speed, unplugging the computer's power supply with quick hands and eyes, and spinning the computer chair to look at the door as if nothing had happened.

As it turned out, the person who came in was not his sister Dana checking the bills, but "Chairman Bai," whom he hadn't seen for days.

This made the guilty young man furious.

Alex stared at Meng Yi with a face full of resentment, as if Meng Yi owed him several units of "Qi" (Note: 1 Qi day = 5.01 million ≈ two days of pleasure).

"Boss, how do you have time to come to my place?"

Meng Yi was all smiles. Not long before opening the door, the young man had contributed tens of thousands of US dollars to him. How could he not be happy?

He found a sofa nearby and sat down, crossed his legs, rested his elbows on the sofa armrest, crossed his fingers, and stared at Alex without saying a word, making the hooded man's hair stand on end.

"Bo... Boss, let's talk things over! Don't look at me like that, I'm scared..."

Alex gritted his teeth and stomped his foot. "You want me to go to the laboratory, right? Let's go! Let's go now. Whether you want to draw blood or cut flesh, it's all up to you!"

Meng Yi chuckled, pushed up his non-prescription black-rimmed gold-patterned glasses, and said meaningfully: "Alex, can I trust you?"

Through the internet contact of the "Artificial Intelligence: Red Queen," Meng Yi judged that Alex was not a bad person.

At the very least, his moral bottom line was much higher than Meng Yi's, and he was far less flexible than Meng Yi.

At the very least, Meng Yi couldn't do it—unconditionally subsidizing an "intimate big sister," contributing his own wealth, time, energy, and emotions to help the "intimate big sister" and her "cute daughter" rebuild a "beautiful life."

"Ah? Boss, what do you mean by that?"

"If you tell me to go east, I will never go west!"

Alex was stunned for a moment and said with extreme sincerity.

It was Meng Yi who first recognized his identity as a "human," and it was Meng Yi who gave him today's financial freedom and comfortable life.

If there was no conflict of principle, how could Alex betray Meng Yi?

Meng Yi smiled, stood up, paced to the window with the virtual exterior, and put one hand behind his back.

"My experiment is complete. Next, I am going to start the 'Great Nirvana Plan' for the entire civilization."

"Eliminate the polluting nature of the Blacklight Virus and only retain the ability for rapid evolution. The evolution speed of early humans may not be as fast as that of beasts and plants."

"I need you to be a 'Civilization Watcher' and suppress uncontrollable non-human life forms on the surface."

Alex only felt a heavy sense of responsibility and trust pressing on his not-so-broad shoulders.

"Boss, what about you?"

Meng Yi didn't turn around. With his movie-star-level acting skills, he said faintly with his back to Alex: "Me? I'm leaving. Starting the 'Nirvana Era' requires sacrifices. This is the destiny I've dreamed of."

"So, Alex, can I trust you?"

Caught off guard, bewildered, hesitant, regretful, reluctant...

Alex hunched his back, his fists tightened and then relaxed. After a long, long time, he spoke in a strained, hoarse voice.

"Boss, you can even sacrifice yourself for the evolution of the human race."

Then he smiled freely. "My life, Alex Mercer, is worthless. What's wrong with paying the price with most of my future time?"

"Civilization Watcher? This title is super cool. I accept your final mission!" ===== CHAPTER 35 =====