The Future of the Human Colony

Chapter 46: 2.03 The Future of the Human Colony

Desperate Plane, the Yuanhua 834 ocean liner suddenly lost all signals on the vast sea, causing a huge uproar. For a time, small newspapers in a certain free foreign trade port were filled with topics like pirates, the Eastern Bermuda Triangle, and alien abductions.

South Ninth Segment Sea Area, a fleet composed of three destroyers was searching the area. Helicopters with blue and white paint skimmed over the waves, their crews scanning the sea surface for targets with their naked eyes.

"9214, 9214, this is 9224, please respond—"

"9224, sea conditions are normal here, wind force level six, wave height..., no target found yet—"

"Continue searching—"

Radio signals were transmitted in the integrated command center within the warship.

Since the missing cargo ship had not been found yet, the search and rescue team felt the hope was very slim, but orders from above dictated that the search must continue.

Meanwhile, a certain black stealth high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft from the United States of America flew overhead. The Pentagon seemed quite concerned about this disappearance, perhaps more concerned about whether the ship of their quasi-ally in the East had truly gone missing. When Washington's decision-makers communicated with the Pentagon, they were aware of some of the East's "cunning" tactics, such as 'feigning an attack on one front while concentrating forces on another.'

After all, the ship carried a series of valuable production equipment, some of which involved sensitive materials. It should be known that according to the latest intelligence, the Global Salvation Army had recently used guided rockets with highly toxic substances in their attack on Israel, and the production of these toxic substances involved some large-scale key industrial equipment.

At 3 PM, the third searching destroyer discovered a strange electronic radiation signal in the sea area near the Dongsha Islands and immediately approached it.

Destroyer 201, upon approaching within two hundred meters, saw a mirage. This optical phenomenon was precisely the Yuanhua 834, heading towards the Guangdong port.

The destroyer captain immediately stopped approaching, transmitted the situation back to the military region, and then proceeded with the next course of action.

Twenty minutes later, a search and rescue helicopter took off from the destroyer and found the source of the radiation light. It was a glowing object, with no electrical charge, but within a sixty-meter range, it repelled approaching matter. The repulsive force intensified the closer one got.

However, it was confirmed that this object was still affected by Earth's gravity, and its mass was determined to be forty-five tons. It floated on the sea surface because the volume of water pushed away by the repulsive force was greater than the gravity acting on itself.

A nearby supply ship, using steel cables, reeled the repulsive substance, the wormhole, into its hangar. Once inside the square hangar, this wormhole quickly filled everything within.

Three days later, this luminous body was transported to the shore. The military used a pure steel carriage to contain the luminous body and then transported it by train overnight to the Southwest Physics Center.

Pandora Plane, in a newly built brick and tile house, black smoke began to rise from the chimney as Wei Keng fired up the power boiler.

The Yuanhua 834 ocean liner was already docked outside the natural deep-water port, and a cement ship was moored beside it. A steel ladder was placed against the ship's railing, and Wei Keng boarded the sea vessel.

Wei Keng was quite surprised that he could board the ship. After arriving in this world, Wei Keng had only been met with vigilance. This sudden, unguarded face-to-face interaction made Wei Keng a little unaccustomed.

Wei Keng met the captain, Sun Xiangyang, for the first time.

The two looked at each other, and after completing a bewildered mutual military salute, they greeted each other in Mandarin with "Hello."

For Sun Xiangyang, although "Unity is Strength" was playing at the dock, Wei Keng's group all looked identical, which was a bit strange. However, the red flag fluttering over the small port made him choose to believe this place.

[Sun Xiangyang wants to figure out what kind of place this is, and Wei Keng cannot appear to know that people from their Main World created the spacetime vortex that brought them here. He must act as if he is also a transmigrator needing assistance.]

Wei Keng: "This plane is a future era, hmm, a future era for me. I'm from the 21st Century. I encountered a plane crash while flying. After parachuting, I passed through the mist and landed here. When I landed, I found I had become many individuals."

Sun Xiangyang was greatly surprised: "You're from the 21st Century? This is the future for you, so where is this?"

Wei Keng finally found an opportunity to see the logo on the life preserver on the ship: 19xx~ Huh? Wuchen Year. He also asked "in surprise," "Did you guys come here more than ten years ago?"

From then on, the two parties' nonsensical conversation finally came to an end.

The first step in communication is sincerity. Perhaps Wei Keng was not confident in his ability to grasp people's hearts, even though he held the upper hand! It was no exception.

So Wei Keng did not adopt Luo Hongxing's suggestion. Instead, after boarding the ship, he told the Ministry of Health here the truth about these illnesses.

In the cabin in the middle of the ship, Old Li, the medical orderly on the ship, after listening to Wei Keng's explanation about the Life Radiation of this plane, asked: "No need to consider blood type, and no rejection phenomenon?"

Wei Keng: "Yes, the rejection phenomenon is very rare. My numbers are very large, so according to the Principle, if my blood is injected, it can quickly stabilize the patient's condition. However, I don't know if there are any additional effects. I suggest that patients with mild symptoms transfuse blood with each other to establish a Life Radiation link. This is the common practice of humans in this world. For patients with severe symptoms, my blood can be injected."

Sun Xiangyang, standing nearby: "Little Wei's considerations are very thorough, but you just said that the Life Radiation in this world is very strong. Don't you need to inject yourselves?"

Wei Keng: "Most of the time, no. My clone situation is very uniform in genes, and my life activities are unified. Most of the time, it's enough to resist external radiation, except when seriously injured."

Sun Xiangyang: "Have you been seriously injured?"

Wei Keng: "Yes. When I first arrived in this world, there were a large number of Beasts in the entire Zhujiang River Delta Region. I suffered some casualties. I have compiled the relevant information into archives."

"Knock knock knock!" The cabin door was knocked, and Luo Hongxing walked in, saying: "Captain Sun, something has happened in the cargo hold. You should go take a look."

Sun Xiangyang stood up, extended his Hands, and shook Wei Keng's: "Then I'll trouble you, Comrade Wei." He then turned to the medical orderly: "Old Li, make sure the comrades recover." He then followed Luo Hongxing away. Before leaving, Luo Hongxing glanced at Wei Keng and nodded slightly.

Desperate Plane. In this large warehouse, which resembled the cylindrical outer shell of a 21st Century reactor, a group of scientists had adjusted the electromagnetic equipment, and the wormhole was stably fixed in the metal structure.

As electrical energy was steadily supplied, the point within this sphere of light seemed to be stretched open, revealing an area that resembled an opening. When the opening expanded to one meter, it could be confirmed that it was the cabin of the Yuanhua 834 cargo ship.

"Switch to Mode 303." "Set power to b344." "Increase infrared electromagnetic radiation..."

In the control room, staff members were reporting on the tests of this wormhole.

And a few Seconds later, another situation was confirmed from the other side of the wormhole: the flickering phantom in the wormhole was a person! After slowing down the recording of the phantom by 65 times, the researchers confirmed that the captain was standing there.

The chief scientist stared at the clock placed there, his gaze dazed, and then said: "The time is sixty times ours!"

"It seems like they are transmitting something to us from over there."

A recording staff member rewound the video five minutes earlier. That is, on the other side of the wormhole, dozens of crew members gathered together, attempting to poke something tied to a pole into the wormhole.

This process encountered wormhole repulsion! After scientists' calculations, breaking this repulsion requires using electromagnetic force to shatter the wormhole's force field distortion shell.

Beside the science team, a military leader, General Ling Liang, gazed at the wormhole: "Inform the other side to communicate information using Morse code."

Inside the cabin, Wei Keng assisted Old Li with the operation.

Old Li was very cautious and still performed blood type testing. He had healthy comrades on the ship donate blood to those with mild symptoms. Wei Keng's blood type was also Type A, and he allocated six people's portions.

An hour later, Old Li's sixty-four patients with mild symptoms were still under observation. Wei Keng's critically ill patients had already gotten out of bed and walked around the mild symptom ward to show everyone. They could be cured, which stabilized the morale on the ship. They were undergoing recovery training next door—that is, increasing lung capacity by singing a song together.

"A great river, with waves wide, the rice flowers sway..."

The singing, when it reached the next room, wasn't loud, but almost everyone heard it.

A worker lying in bed threw the cold towel from his head into the basin beside him and said with a somewhat aggressive tone: "Old Jiang and the others got better so quickly. Are they done with us after just one round of mutual blood transfusion?"

The medic Old Li said: "Comrade Wei Keng introduced us to the situation here. Life radiation takes time. The leadership has studied it. Apart from the critically ill patients, everyone else will receive conservative treatment. Comrade Yuhua, please be patient."

This worker, named Huang Yuhua, had a fiery temper: "I need to get better quickly. I have work to do, I don't have time to be observed by you here."

"Yuhua? Yuhua, what are you doing?" Old Li tried to grab the stubborn mule, but the strong worker in his thirties flung him off with a shove.

Wei Keng looked at the worker who rushed in front of him, extending his sleeve to get an injection, and was stunned, asking: "Comrade, did the clinic issue a prescription?"

Huang Yuhua: "This Young Comrade Wei, give me a shot of your medicine."

Wei Keng: "Uncle, this isn't medicine, it's my serum. I only accept critically ill patients here."

Huang Yuhua: "You young comrade, don't be so stingy!" Just as an argument was about to break out, Luo Hongxing rushed over to mediate.

Luo Hongxing: "Worker Huang, you're too impatient. He's doing this for your own good. This Comrade Wei Keng has unknown replication hyperplasia here, with many individuals."

Huang Yuhua: "I've heard about it. I have a pile of things to do in my office, I was just thinking of splitting myself into a few."

Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, Luo Hongxing said to Wei Keng: "How about you?"

Wei Keng stared at Luo Hongxing, as if trying to determine if he was genuinely acting, because his performance gave no clue to his thoughts within the system.

Wei Keng took a deep breath, tore off a report form, and handed it to this Acute Maniac surnamed Huang. Wei Keng: "I'll give you an injection, but for the first week, you have to fill out this form three times a day."

Thus, this non-critically ill person received the first injection. And this opening soon widened.

After receiving Wei Keng's serum, Huang Yuhua felt his symptoms rapidly disappear.

He was full of energy, ate several more bowls of rice, and after finishing his work, he fell asleep. In his words, "It's rare to sleep so soundly."

After a week, he was full of vigor. He went to Old Li for a physical examination. After checking his heart, lungs, and chest, Old Li muttered, "You're as strong as an ox."

In China's social environment, once the first person to eat a crab is fine, all the crabs in the ditch can be caught.

The entire crew ignored the warning and crowded around the clinic window, pointing at Wei Keng inside and demanding a direct injection.

And among these people was Luo Hongxing.

After about two-thirds of the people on the ship received Wei Keng's blood, Luo Hongxing submitted the data he had collected to the system, connecting with the Observer on his side, Mang Xinzong.

Mang Xinzong: "Confirmed, the Human Colony is consolidating. Please pay close attention to your position within the colony." A discrete distribution image appeared on the screen.

This model not only depicted the current situation of the human population in the Zhujiang River Basin but also included scenarios with other Apostle-level Node Creatures in charge.

The representative of a settlement was the Node Creature, but the Node Creature could not be considered the entirety of the settlement.

According to the current data of the Space-Time Crossing Department, when Node Creatures serve as the convergence point for the Life Radiation energy of a region, they can concentrate and utilize the energy occupied by their colony within the ecosystem. This is the highest peak in the discrete model of the overall scale of individual lives within the colony.

When the Node disappears, the point of energy convergence is gone, but the colony's life energy activity still remains! It is possible that, based on the internal differences of the colony, it will split into several smaller colonies, and several new Node Creatures will be born. For example, the entire Yue Region originally had one large node, but due to interference from other colonies, it split into many small nodes, leading to fierce battles around the mouth of the Zhujiang River.

Wei Keng is special! On this living space, which now houses nearly eight thousand people, including the new crew members, the effect of a colony is already evident, but there is no absolute Node Creature! This is because the highest part, Wei Keng's 1,500 individual life radiations, are uniform. Perhaps, Wei Keng's group is a vague, large node.

What if Wei Keng leaves? The established colony will not disappear, but new Node Creatures will emerge.

In other words, Wei Keng's current Telepathy and recovery abilities will, with Wei Keng's departure, appear in someone within the colony who has high life intensity and best fits the colony.

But who will be such an inheritor?

Luo Hongxing is currently monitoring his numerical value in the discrete model. His position has not yet approached Wei Keng's central peak, so he cannot let Wei Keng leave at this time.

Luo Hongxing: "Record this. At the current time node, the name of this system is 'Human Emperor'."

Luo Hongxing's actual rank: High Minister.

He had visited some planes where life consciousness could shake the heavens and the earth. Human Emperor! The tacit center of all people, the convergence point of the Human race's destiny.

On the Timeline after Wei Keng's group completely departs, this world's current Human Colony will produce a singular node-holder. Therefore, High Minister Luo made an Eastern-style definition for this.