Plague Doctor

The light inside the lighthouse was gloomy. Gu Jun looked at the line of bloody words on the wall of the stairs, his eyes closed, and the hand holding the rifle tightened.

He was not sure when he first encountered this sentence. Was it at the bottom of Longkan? Or in childhood?

The first time he saw his memory sequence was an illusion triggered in the school laboratory, where he saw such a line of blood writing on the wall of a dilapidated laboratory.

He later tested his subconscious mind during the personality test when he entered the Tianji Bureau, and wrote this line of blood words himself.

[The fruit of darkness grows from the eternal abyss, and the worm of death will last forever with heaven and earth]

Gu Jun walked over carefully and saw more clearly that it was smeared with bloody sputum. Judging from the sputum stains, it should have only been applied for a few days.

"Let's go up and have a look." Gu Jun's voice was already hoarse. The next life meeting, the next life meeting...

What are you going to do this time? Why do you want to cause disaster? Don’t you think that you are Yiwen people? Don’t you know what kind of suffering Yiwen people have experienced... Why do you want to inflict suffering on this world? revenge? What Great Old One is calling? Or simply crazy?

Crack, click, there was no sound when the footsteps stepped on the stone stairs, but the friction and collision of the protective clothing as they walked was very harsh in this silent environment.

Gu Jun walked in front, followed by Peacock and others, walking up the spiral staircase to the upper floor.

The stone steps of this staircase are very narrow and there are not many steps. However, Gu Jun remembered the one he walked under the altar outside the city of Hawke City in the alien world.

The further up he went, the more weird feeling he felt in his mind, like there were many mixed sounds filling his ears...

"Did you hear the sound?" Gu Jun frowned, like a group of children singing a song.

"No." Peacock said doubtfully, and no one else heard any sound.

Is it an illusion? Gu Jun was more vigilant and continued to walk up to the second floor of the lighthouse. It was still empty, with no people or debris.

But the song was louder. It was a ballad in a different language, and it seemed to be ringing in the bottom of his heart:

“My mother died in the morning.

In the afternoon, my father died.

I will die at night.

Great plague, great plague,

In the sound of coughing, everyone will die together. "

Gu Jun felt a cracking pain in his head as he listened to the song, and a hazy sense of illusion emerged in front of his eyes, and an illusion was triggering...

Click, click, he continued to lead the way to the third floor of the lighthouse, which was still vacant, and further up was the top of the tower.

"Be careful..." Gu Jun felt that there was someone on the top of the tower, but the operators watching from various positions outside the lighthouse did not see anyone, and the thermal imaging scope did not respond.

Da da da da, he and Peacock and others rushed to the top of the tower again using the room-rushing tactic. There was no one there, only a big lamp hanging in the middle emitted a faint light.

Gu Jun squinted his eyes and looked at the lamp. He suddenly had a headache and felt that the surroundings were distorting. It was not space, but an illusion. He was entering an illusion...

Hazy, the top of the tower is still the top of the tower, the night is still dark, and the misty sea remains unchanged, but there is an additional figure in front of it.

It was an old man with a haggard face. He looked to be seventy or eighty years old, but his white hair was neatly combed. He was wearing a long black mandarin that fit him naturally, making him look very hale and hearty. The old man didn't feel cold, but he seemed to have the demeanor of an elderly scholar.

"My child, you are here." The old man was drinking tea from a blue and white porcelain cup, "Just order whatever you want."

Regardless of whether it was an illusion or something, Gu Jun pointed his rifle at the old man, "Don't move!"

"Don't be nervous, this is an illusion." The old man said, "I didn't see you, but you will see me, I know you will."

Gu Jun tried to pull the trigger and shoot the old man's calf, but nothing happened. This... was indeed an illusion...

Did this old guy who will meet in the next life "record" this illusion here in advance so that he can see it when he comes...

"You have a lot of questions." The old man turned around and looked at the boundless sea in the dark night, and took a sip of tea. "Is this pneumonia a disease created by us? Why do we do this? Questions like this. These questions I I have been thinking about it for many years.”

"You're talking about fallacies again." Gu Jun said angrily, regardless of whether the other party heard it or not, "You're talking about those crazy things of evil believers again."

"Child, I have no intention of convincing you." The old man smiled with an old face, as if he had already anticipated how he would react, and even every word he said.

The old man said: "I just want to give you another perspective on things. People usually regard disease and plague as a bad thing, and the same is true for us people in the old world. But we, and this world, It has always been shaped by disease and plague.”

The old man's voice was gentle and he spoke slowly, like a scholar standing on the podium.

"Humans were the first to eat raw meat, and this desire still exists in our genes. The reason why humans no longer eat raw meat is not because raw meat is not delicious enough, but because raw meat contains many deadly parasites. You are studying medicine. , you probably know those parasites better than I do. Those who eat raw meat are gradually eliminated, and those who eat cooked meat can thrive. This is a small example of how disease shapes us. Another small example is that we do not eat rotten meat. ."

"So?" Gu Jun's breathing was a little heavy, "Is this the reason why you harm others? Who do you think you are?"

"Human history is a history of wars and plagues." The old man took a sip of tea and said, "Why did Chinese civilization

Originated in the North rather than the South? Because the hot and humid environment in the south has more parasites and diseases than in the north. The Mongols brought the plague to the Europeans, and the Black Death changed the whole of Europe; the Europeans brought the plague to the New World, and the Indians were almost wiped out. Most of them died of smallpox. The Europeans got the New World, and the entire human civilization was changed. . "

"Child, you see, if there is a huge change in the world, it must be accompanied by hunger, death, war, and plague."

"Children, especially the plague."

"Every great plague is a great baptism for mankind. Most people die, but a few survive and bring civilization to a new level."

The old man seemed to be able to see Gu Jun's scowl, and smiled like an elder tolerating the younger, "We are creating a new world, and this is our purpose. I didn't say that we must be right, we are just pursuing what we want. world."

"Yes, we involved what you call innocent people. No one can escape the torrent of history. The fate of most people is actually the result of the struggle and arrangement of a few people. They have their mission of the times, and dying is also a mission , a sublimation. They will be remembered by history."

The old man took a sip of tea and sighed a little, "My child, there is something rotten that can only be ended with chaos."

"New epidemics will create a new order, and new extinctions will bring about a new world."

"And you." The old man looked at Gu Jun, "You will have a good position in the new world. You are born to belong to the minority."

"You may be a little unreasonable." Gu Junsha said solemnly, "But I know it shouldn't be like this. You have no right to cause this pain. No one has the right."

"Okay." The old man smiled, "Son, let's talk about it next time we meet face to face."

The illusion came to an abrupt end, and in front of Gu Jun's eyes was still the empty lighthouse top, with the faint light swaying, and the sea roaring in the distance...

"Send someone here to take samples and investigate." He used the intercom to communicate with the troops while walking down to the lower level of the lighthouse. "It will be completed within an hour, and then directly use missiles to blow up the lighthouse. Act immediately!"

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