Chapter 892 "Scale Man" (Thirteen)

For a moment, the screen turned bright and dark, from blurry to clear, just like human eyes that had just been opened.

"Brother!" Panqing's worried expression revealed a hint of joy.

The camera cuts away, and Pan Hong unsteadily props himself up, turning from lying down to sitting up, his face still in a daze.

"This is……?"

"Catastrophe."

Rui's voice sounded, and people walked into the picture.

"What?" Pan Hong was stunned.

"The temperature has suddenly risen. The average temperature in New Century City has exceeded 45 degrees and is now approaching 50 degrees."

Rui's tightly pursed lips between words showed that he was not at peace in his heart, "People...human beings cannot bear such high temperatures, and a large number of them have suffered from heatstroke."

He paused: "Scale Man is fine."

Rui's last two sentences became like a voice-over, and the scene changed to a scene of pedestrians falling down one after another under the scorching sun, and the scaly people looking up blankly. Here, a narration was made.

"This?" Pan Hong couldn't turn his head around and asked again, "Those frozen ones...! And the Yan soldiers...!"

Hearing him mention this matter, Rui's tense expression relaxed slightly.

"Because the temperature has become higher, the ice cubes melted automatically." He said warmly, "Our fellow humans are all fine. Or rather, the situation is much better than before."

With that said, Rui leaned back and motioned Pan Hong to take a look.

The camera slowly followed Pan Hong's line of sight. They were groups of people sitting in the building. From the first floor to the second and third floors, there were dense crowds everywhere. It seemed that Rui and the others had directly occupied a building. Mall.

"As for Yan Bing."

Rui's voice was indifferent, "He and the people from the special search team were locked up."

Pan Hong was dumbfounded and was stunned for a long time before saying: "Wait, so now..."

"It's the age of scale people."

Rui took his words.

The entire scene suddenly shrank when he said these words, and the giant screen presented the panoramic view of New Century City in front of the audience. The sun was so dazzling and unnaturally hot that the eaves and exterior walls of some buildings even showed signs of melting. The fruits, green plants and flowers were roasted until they were wilted, and the counter of the cold drink dessert shop that replaced "Yoyo Milk Tea" was messy with the melted ice cream.

Suddenly, the position changes.

Apo, Aliu, Shu Zhen, Amber and other scaly people kept bringing back humans who were comatose due to heat stroke from outside. The super large auditorium where Yan Bing once gave a speech was used by Rui as a temporary gathering place, and it was densely packed with people.

Panhong put on Panqing's special cooling helmet and followed Rui outside.

Along the way, only scale men were seen carrying fallen humans, while the streets that had been "cleaned" were deserted, with only the pavement and green plants on the corners bearing the scorching heat.

"Hey, where...?" Pan Hong raised his head.

There were still people watching them near the high-rise windows of office buildings and residential buildings, but once they caught Pan Hong's gaze, those people hurriedly withdrew their heads and pretended that they were not there.

"They are the remaining humans." Rui said calmly as he walked away, "They didn't go out, and there is still air conditioning in their homes or companies."

Pan Hong was sweating again just after walking these few steps. He wiped his sweat and said:

"You can't last long!"

"Yes." Rui responded softly, "When we went to the street to rescue people, some people called for the security guard, but as soon as the security guard went out, he also fell down."

He looked up at the sun: "...This city is facing its end."

Thirty years ago, large-scale acid rain fell on this land without warning. Humanity experienced a great change at that time. It was Yan Bing and several others who led everyone to re-establish the current city after the natural disaster. city ​​and named it "New Century City".

Unexpectedly, just thirty years later, the disaster struck again, and this time it was more powerful. Unlike acid rain, which could not be avoided, human beings who were defenseless could only rely on air conditioning to stay in their current location.

"The air conditioner will run out!"

Pan Hong's voice was hard, "We must get those people down and concentrate the resources..."

He couldn't go on because Yan Bing announced the discovery of "new energy" a long time ago and promoted it in an all-round way. Now the energy used in New Century City is produced by scale people, and every point used is equivalent to gouging out a piece of scale people's flesh. .

Rui said a faint "hmm" and said nothing.

They walked to the Great Hall. Seeing Rui coming over, A Liu threw the man off his shoulder without mercy and reported hurriedly.

"Boss! Dr. Carter is awake!"

"Dr. Carter?!" Pan Hong was stunned and quickly followed Rui.

"Brother, after you all fainted from the heat, we rescued Dr. Carter in the confinement room of the base." Panqing explained in a low voice, "She has been locked up by the Yan soldiers for a long time."

Pan Hong was even more angry and sad because Yan Bing announced that Dr. Carter was dead a few years ago, but he did not expect the truth to be like this.

The appearance of new characters made the audience curious and breathless at the same time. From Rui knocking down Yan Bing to Pan Hong slowly waking up, the rhythm of this plot is like a roller coaster that goes straight to the sky. Everyone was just stimulated by the fierce battle and turning point and their hearts stopped, and they were immediately thrust into it like Pan Hong. There is a lot of information, which can make you feel dizzy for a while.

Through the meeting between Rui and others and Dr. Carter, everyone learned an even more shocking truth.

"Is the scale man the result of evolution?" Rui asked in surprise.

The old-looking Dr. Carter nodded.

"I had a conjecture a few years ago. I believed that acid rain was a sign of catastrophic changes in the world. Human beings would adapt to natural changes and evolve accordingly, becoming a new race that can adapt to harsh environments. Now it seems that this conjecture is correct. ”

She said and sighed:

"It's a pity that Yan Bing and I once thought that acid rain brought new viruses and new diseases, so that humans exposed to acid rain began to mutate..."

Dr. Carter's words contain a huge amount of information. Audiences such as Lin Rou who watched it for the first time had to think about it from time to time. Fans who watched it again reacted very quickly, admiring the details while understanding the plot.

First of all, scabies are not a disease and are not contagious.

In order to complete his "new energy" plan, Yan Bing deliberately misled the public and spread the public opinion that "scale diseases can be transmitted through body fluids." Coupled with the unusual appearance of scale people, he successfully made ordinary humans hate scale people. Avoid it.

At the same time, Yan Bing advocated the treatment of scale people. Every once in a while, he announced that "there is a new medical plan" and "the treatment is progressing gratifyingly." This not only preserved his reputation and image, but also ordered special search and rescue in an upright manner. The team arrested the scale man, and Pan Hong was just one of the many innocent people who trusted him, and thus became an accomplice to the executioner without knowing it.

If you think about it carefully, it is not an exaggeration to describe what Yan Bing did as a "ghost from hell".

While he preached "harmony and friendship, scaly people can be cured", he also constantly emphasized that scaly diseases are contagious and never preached that "human beings should coexist peacefully with scaly people."

However, people like Rui who had entered the experimental base and knew the truth had to launch attacks and plunder resources in order to survive after escaping. Therefore, they were labeled "terrorists" by Yan Bing.

One side harms, the other hates, and so on, the contradictions intensify layer by layer, and finally form a closed loop of confrontation between humans and scale humans.

Secondly, evolution is the essence of the birth of scale people. But exactly how and why it evolves remains a mystery.

When the plot developed to this point, Qin Jue glanced at his watch and found that the movie's screening time had not passed half.

If it were an ordinary commercial popcorn blockbuster, the decisive battle with Yan Bing would have been the end of the film. Rui and Pan Hong worked together to defeat the real villain regardless of their past grievances. The scene was full of special effects and vigorous, advancing all the way to the climax and then ending. .

However, this is indeed the work of Fang Youwen and Yuan Xiao.

They spent the first hour brilliantly completing the keyword "business", and then turned the story to what they were good at and what they wanted to convey to the public.

Race, hatred, war, good and evil, strong and weak, exploitation and counter-exploitation, discrimination and counter-discrimination.

From now on, the work "Scale Man" really enters the theme.

The sufferings in the world are nothing more than "natural disasters" and "man-made disasters".

So... what kind of conflict will break out next between humans and scale people in the story, and what kind of ending will they usher in?

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