Artifact

As the submarine slowly drove into the hive, getting closer, Alina shivered all over.

The entire hive is built from the inside to the outside with the structure of snowflake crystals, and each snowflake blade extending from the skeleton of the core building is composed of hundreds of thousands of hexagonal cabins, with a rough total of no less than a million!

Among them, each hexagonal chamber is an independent ecological petri dish, and a person is imprisoned in each petri dish.

All of them were women, and the deeper they went into the hive, the younger they became, until the cabin was filled with artificial wombs, and through the membranes of the uterus they could see the first fetus resembling a four-legged snake.

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energy required for the entire hive is transmitted over long distances through several magic crystals, and the management system is fully automated, and the inside of it is pregnant with the fetus, which is gradually pushed to the periphery as it ages, and the outermost part of the hive is full of mature women.

All of them had various tubes attached to them, most of them were asleep, and only a few were able to wake up.

It is said that only those who have woken up can be regarded as "finished products", which will then be put into the outside world and become "socialized" experiments.

Here, the oldest person is only eighteen or nineteen years old, and "awakening", at least in the Queen's term, seems to be related to the degree of physical development, and if it does not awaken before the final development is completed, it will be disposed of as a waste.

"Awakening" also has a high or low level of ability, usually according to the time of awakening, the younger the ability, the stronger the ability.

Of course, awakening is only the first step, and what needs to be achieved after that is "recovery", because it is said that once human beings become self-conscious, many innate abilities will be suppressed by "human nature", and only by reaching a delicate balance point can people control those innate abilities.

Seeing such a large number of human trials, Alina could think that because the probability of awakening was too low, the executive committee could only rely on a needle-in-ahaystack method to find a candidate.

Stretching for several kilometers inside and outside the base, there are also densely packed locust-like unmanned circular machines shuttling through it, with six robotic arms that move the hexagonal "single room" around like spiders.

Alina's conjecture has come true, and this place is "Elia...... No, it's the manufacturing base for the production version of "Lord's Power"!

Queen Yevna's deep voice rang out from the side:

"That's what you're up against...... It is a choice that is unethical, moral, and even anti-human. Because this is the last resort used by our Romanov family to resist the demons...... It is also a sin that we have committed!".

As Alina saw all this, she kept thinking about the smile on Ono's face in the photo, and kept recalling the vanilla in the mouth of Night Thirteen.

Whether it is Hyakmu Ghost Junying, who is obsessed with the demon in order to resurrect Ono, or Night Thirteen, who has traveled to the ends of the earth in search of vanilla, it seems that they were destined to be played by God a long time ago.

Listen to Queen Yevna again:

"Illya's first sample accident was very strange, and the team is still following up on the clues. Originally, Sample 001 was adopted by a family, but then a famine struck and she witnessed her father eat her mother who died of illness...... After the dog that accompanied her was killed and eaten in front of her, she suddenly lost control - supposedly disappeared in place. "

"It's really gone. This is because the Commission's investigation team has since visited the scene and detected extremely strange energy source reactions remaining. Although there is no conclusive evidence, this high-level energy is enough to make a person travel through time and space! Intelligence has shown that this is indeed a 'resuscitation' phenomenon, and that Specimen 001 had mastered ten languages before disappearing, and had a strange attachment to 'family'. "

"So we believe that no matter where Sample 001 is, she will definitely live in a loving and harmonious home. But because she is too dangerous, the investigation team has been looking for her for ten years, after all, she is the first sample to revive the 'power of God', but unfortunately ......

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"So, after such a serious accident, the committee has become more and more confident that Elia can be the 'ultimate weapon' against the demons. But at the same time, for safety reasons, the production base was placed on the bottom of the sea, and a variety of prohibitions were added. "

Alina seems to know who the "vanished Sample 001" is, and she also knows what the final outcome of the "sample" will be - although it is not perfect, Zero 01 died in the arms of her beloved.

The submarine slowed down and slowly drove into the center of the hive, each meter representing the two of them skimming over thousands of Ilia samples.

Alina was in a trance, she didn't dare to look at the faces of those girls, she was afraid that she would just see someone open her eyes and face such an evil world!

Alina struggled to control her emotions and kept her voice low:

"You ...... How many people are put out?!".

"You mean the Awakening Sample? I know, there are about a dozen people. Even if there are nearly a million samples, very few can actually wake up on their own volition. Most of them sleep in dreams made of drugs and magic, and they don't even know they've been to ......the real world."

"Shut up!!" Alina yelled, trembling with anger: "How can you...... How can it be ...... They are not toys, they are not tools, they have feelings, they can cry and laugh, they have memories and dreams, and each of them is a living person!".

Queen Yevna's face was grim: "Of course I know what you said. "

Alina couldn't control it anymore and cried bitterly: "You guys...... Are you still human?!".

Queen Yevna endured her grief:

"Alina, now please recall the army of demons you saw in my memories. If the Romanovs are defeated, if the Oleg family can't stop it, the combat power of the Northern Magic Holy See will collapse...... What happens after that?".

Alina suddenly raised her head, and suddenly gave birth to a sense of pride:

"If it was Night Thirteen, he would say, 'Those who should perish will perish, and if you do your best, everything will no longer be a pity!', 'But as a human being, you must not force others to die for you!' whether this means are through brainwashing, deception, violence, or intimidation......

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"Even if the Romanov family is to fight against the demons, they should not choose this kind of approach to break the bottom line. Humanity calls itself civilized because there is a basic moral boundary between it and barbarism and ignorance, and if even this is lost, what is the point of winning this war?"

"This world is full of living beings, and all life is trying to survive and seek continuity, and it is only right. But what is really worth inheriting is not life, but civilization. If human beings are not civilized, what is the difference between them and animals?".

"I still remember the story of a monk who was as powerful as a god and did not hesitate to reverse the natural order in order to prolong his life, and killed hundreds of millions of people to achieve his own path of rebirth. Even if he was so powerful, in the end, he couldn't escape the punishment of Heavenly Dao. "

"Yes, Heavenly Dao! This is somewhat similar to the 'Mandate of Heaven' you said earlier, Queen. It may not be an ethereal thing, because the Thirteen Nights, as a native of the East, believe in one thing - good is rewarded with good, evil is rewarded with evil, not that the time has not come!".