Xiang Shan looked around, feeling a bit confused.
Everywhere he looked, there was decay.
tal had accumulated nurous rusts due to oxidation. These rusts beca the breeding ground for certain new age fungi. The secretions from these fungi further corroded the tal, deepening the rust. And the traces of decay left by these fungi after their death beca the "soil" for other organisms.
No one had managed this place for a long ti.
Due to the narrow application of "sll," Xiang Shan still hadn’t equipped a corresponding sensory Prosthetic Body. He didn’t know what kind of decay the air carried the mont he blasted open the door.
Probably not very pleasant...
Nor did he know if this place was sealed.
Xiang Shan also had no idea where these frenzied fungi originated. It’s hard to imagine these things growing out of tal rust as a result of natural evolution. In the natural environnt, such dense accumulation of tallic elents is quite rare. In most cases, this amount of tal elents piled together is the result of human collection, selection, and slting.
He recalled that Superman Enterprise had developed so bacteria or fungi for cleaning up various organic macromolecule waste—including a variety of white pollution like plastics. There were also lab products that aid to create "bacteria or fungi that could accumulate heavy tal pollution," used for environntal rediation.
These studies were launched around the fifties. At that ti, human Benchmarking had already been on track, and the Cyberization schedule was beginning to take shape. Having fulfilled its historical mission, the biological research institution of Superman Enterprise started doing so "research they wanted to do themselves." Superman Enterprise also needed more projects that "could enhance the corporate image" and "could enhance the overall image of genetic engineering."
Those projects were initiated under that background.
Yawgmoth’s theoretical frawork made such wonderful products possible. Humans could design complex chemical reaction networks and insert their desired "pathways" within these networks.
It seems that successes were already seen in the sixties.
However, the Usurper of the State and clandestine chivalric wars ensued. Superman Enterprise beca an enemy of Xiang Shan. Xiang Shan thus stopped paying attention to these matters.
Was there bacteria or fungi already released into landfills?
Those bacteria and fungi were not all tal-based organisms; in fact, Carbon-based Life was the majority. Carbon-based Life better adapted to Earth’s environnt. Those organisms would also be affected by the Ichigo infection incident, right? What happens to these artificial lives when they receive illegal Commands?
—Ah, it’s completely unimaginable...
Are those bacteria’s descendants growing rampant in David’s museum now?
Why has no one co to manage it?
If no one cares about this place, then why specifically send soone to guard it?
"Could they be crazy," Xiang Shan muttered.
At this mont, he stood before a gigantic transport aircraft. It even carried a smaller space shuttle on its back. However, due to decay and rust, the nose of the transport aircraft drooped to the ground.
It looked like a dragon that had been beheaded.
Xiang Shan looked at the decayed aircraft nose. This ancient non-living machine seed to have a pair of eyes that couldn’t find peace even in death.
It was constructed by the forr Red Alliance in the twentieth century, but construction halted halfway due to political upheavals. Its mostly ford frawork lay sealed in a warehouse for fifty years, with countless docunts lost. David later bought it with a significant sum and, lacking much of the technical docuntation, assembled a team to figure out a way to complete it. Inevitably, latest twenty-first-century technology was used in it.
"But even so, you still couldn’t carry the space shuttle to fulfill the purpose bestowed upon you at the design stage," Xiang Shan said.
He turned his head to the other side.
A space shuttle also from the forr Red Alliance and later upgraded with twenty-first-century technology by David.
Next to it was a space shuttle that David himself had copied.
The founders of Superman Enterprise later beca wealthy enough to rival nations. However, these things still led David to deem them "expensive."
In theory, these indeed could be used for going into space.
David even intended to display this thing here regularly and, if necessary, use that super transport aircraft to take it to partner launch centers for comrcial cooperation.
But he never managed to go even once.
Everyone’s first ti going to space...
It seed they dismantled the warhead of an intercontinental missile, hid the Prosthetic Body inside the missile, and burst out of the Karman Line.
The purpose was to disrupt the early space-based weapon equipnt of the Usurpers.
At that ti, the Space-Based Weapons, whether in terms of accuracy, ammunition reserves, or density of launch platforms, couldn’t compare to this era’s satellite weapon networks. So doing this wasn’t difficult.
In the end, these two space shuttles never took off.
The tis had long since outgrown them.
And now, these products outdated by their era appeared quite miserable. One had collapsed directly, as if it had been baptized by artillery fire.
The other, although in slightly better condition, was just able to barely maintain a shape.
Xiang Shan blinked and then turned away.
After passing through a collapsed landscape gate, Xiang Shan saw shattered glass on the ground.
This was used to deter tourists.
Although glass is difficult to decay, the fras supporting the glass could not withstand these strange fungi.
Xiang Shan once again stepped into the park of the Rama Project from those days.
Everything remains as it was in those days.
Except for the bizarrely colored fungi. They looked like there were so pixel issues on a screen.
Then there were the shattered glass, the cracks on the walls, the collapsed ruins...
Aside from that, everything was as it was in those days.
Xiang Shan gripped his large gun and marched forward.
First was the research personnel’s workspace. Here, Yawgmoth made world-changing accomplishnts. Here, David and he together found the key to solving the mysteries of Argon. Here...
Here...
Soon, Xiang Shan reached the living quarters. He stopped in front of a house.
This minimalist style independent apartnt was his residence back then and the "shared space" where he and Zhu Xinyu first started.
A trace of inexplicable trepidation arose within Xiang Shan. He moved towards the door, just like in those days.
But he didn’t walk up to the threshold.
He halted a few ters away.
The height of the door was just two ters.
And now, he could see directly into the window on the second floor.
The curtains were already rotten into a ss. The furniture had long since decayed. There had been two other owners afterward, but when David acquired the place, he restored it to its appearance when Xiang Shan resided there back in the day.
Traces were still visible now.
Xiang Shan softly said, "Fuck."
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