"So what happened to the humans in this world?"
After pondering for a moment, Xu Shenxing chose a question to ask.
"They're all dead. At the moment of the disaster, no one was spared, "the master replied softly.
"What's the 'disaster'? Is it a 'Spectre'? "
"I don't know. At that time, I hadn't turned into a 'friend' yet, so I don't have much of an impression of it." The master shrugged. "Besides, I don't know the true face of the 'Spectre' either."
"Then you … What's the matter with friends?" Xu Shenxing continued to ask.
"Huh, I thought you'd already noticed." The master looked a little surprised. She fiddled with the ends of her hair and then continued to explain, "Friends are humanized — mainly feminized — animals. However, this island, 'Ronichard', is an artificial island. There are no wild animals on the island, so the 'friends' are all human pets." After a pause, she added in a somewhat low voice, "And experimental animals."
"Then what's the reason for the 'friendization'? Why does this happen? "
"Friedenization seems to have something to do with the research project in the central laboratory on Ronichard Island, but I'm not quite sure what's going on."
"..."
How should he put it? Although she did seem to have answered all his questions, when he thought about it carefully, it seemed that she did not answer anything.
Xu Shenxing did not like the feeling of being half-covered.
Probably sensing something from Xu Shenxing's expression, the master also showed a wry smile on her face. "Don't look at me like that. It's not that I didn't tell you on purpose, but I really don't know."
Then, she told him about her situation.
"I was originally a pet tortoise in the central laboratory. The intuition of animals is much stronger than that of humans. Even at that time, I seemed to have felt something. After the laboratory was affected by the 'disaster', I escaped from the aquarium and turned into a 'friend' on the way to the park area."
"Even now, I'm still filled with trepidation towards the central zone … At the same time, perhaps due to the 'calamity', I can vaguely sense the existence of 'World' and obtain some information from it."
"After that, other pets started to turn into friends one after another. However, since they had just turned into friends, they could only rely on their instincts, and after they turned into friends, they would become the targets of the Spectre. That was why I started to teach them the correct … or rather, human-like behavior, and how to use the legacies left behind by humans so that they could survive on this island."
Xu Shenxing thought for a while, but did not find any obvious loopholes in the other party's words.
Or rather, until now, Xu Shenxing had never met a liar.
"Then why did Xiao Bai say that 'no new friends will be born' and that all the friends will be killed by the Spectre?"
Xu Shenxing used the two sentences that Little White said when they first met the Hamster army as a question.
"The appearance of friends has a pattern. Until now, there have been a total of four waves of friends. Pomeranians and I were among the first wave, and it was around the time when humans were completely wiped out. You could say that we were the earliest friends. Xiao Bai and the others appeared nine years ago. After that, a large number of friends appeared six years ago and three years ago … Theoretically, there should be one this year as well, but in fact, until today, there hasn't been a single friend this year … "
Speaking of this, the master's expression immediately turned serious. "On the other hand, the Spectre's mode of action has not changed for twelve years, but for some reason, a large number of super-sized Spectre have appeared this year, and their speed of evolution is getting faster and faster … I'm afraid that after a while, relying solely on human legacies will no longer be able to deal with them."
"Teacher?"
The Pomeranian, who was lying in her arms, straightened up and looked at the master worriedly. Then, the little girl tried her best to encourage the master. "It's okay, we still have Little Xu. He's very powerful!"
"I know, child. But unfortunately, this situation can't be changed by just relying on one person. "
The master touched the little girl's hair and said bitterly.
"How pessimistic."
Xu Shenxing did not think so. Logically speaking, as the savior, he alone had turned the tide and saved the world too many times …
"Maybe, because my body is a tortoise. When there's something I can't solve, I'll retreat into my shell. Isn't that what friends are good at."
The master shrugged, then turned around and pulled out an old book from the bookshelf on the platform and handed it to Xu Shenxing. "In short, if I'm not mistaken, all the mysteries are in the underground laboratory in the central area. The thing that summoned you to this world should also be in there. If you want to know the truth, go to the central area … This book is the notebook of a researcher in the laboratory. Maybe it will be of some help to you."
"Haven't you thought of investigating the laboratory in the central area yourself?"
Xu Shenxing raised his eyebrows and asked as he held the notebook with yellowed pages.
"How much do you expect from a cowardly tortoise …"
"That's true."
Xu Shenxing opened the notebook noncommittally. The notebook seemed to have been torn, and the spine was crookedly glued with cellophane tape. To be honest, in a place surrounded by water, it was lucky that the pages of the notebook hadn't become moldy.
The text in the notebook was naturally not Chinese, but belonged to the same system as the text on the road signs and other things along the way.
And in terms of content, this was not so much a research notebook, but something like a diary or essay.
"Can you read the words on it?"
The master asked Xu Shenxing.
"Just barely."
Xu Shenxing replied casually.
Although Xu Shenxing's' Blessing of All Races' could indeed translate words, compared to ordinary words, this thing wasn't smart enough to help Xu Shenxing adjust the grammar of the words. Therefore, when he looked at the words alone, it felt like he had flipped through an article on a computer. Of course, it basically didn't affect his understanding of the content.
Then Xu Shenxing raised his head and asked curiously, "Don't you understand it?"
"It's not that I don't understand it, but many of the words are guesses … After all, I haven't systematically learned the human language. All the words were slowly deciphered by some simple books in the past twelve years."
The master didn't insist that he could understand it and nodded honestly.
"…"
No wonder Brador and Golden Silk Bear treated the novel as a treasure map and looked for treasures all over the world. It turned out that the problem was here.
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