Doomsday Wonderland

Chapter 1343: Lin Sanjiu’s Kidney

When Lin Sanjiu heard the knock on the iron door, she breathed a sigh of relief: Wan Qingge had finally returned.

In fact, Wan Qingge had only been gone for less than a morning, but for the two anxious posthumans present, it felt like they had been waiting for half a lifetime—especially when there was nothing else to do. They could only sit quietly and wait, feeling their abilities gradually escape with each passing second.

“You’re back.” She opened the iron door on the factory side and smiled nervously at the tall young man outside, “How did it go? Smoothly?”

“I got them,” Wan Qingge said, walking in, looking back outside, and closing the iron door again. “The stock in the hospital storeroom was much smaller than I thought. I only managed to get less than thirty pens.”

“That should be enough!”

Even He Huan, who usually maintained a detached attitude, couldn’t help but step forward upon hearing the noise. Although he didn’t say anything, Lin Sanjiu felt that he didn’t have much confidence in successfully leaving: even if he did what he was supposed to do and considered what needed to be considered, it seemed like he was just going through the motions and leaving the rest to fate. This was likely because He Huan was the posthuman with the most severe degradation of abilities—now, seeing hope of retaining abilities, he was excited to the point where his cheeks were slightly pink.

“Did you encounter any problems on the way?” Lin Sanjiu asked as they walked together.

“No.” Wan Qingge paused and said, “Everything was fine.”

“That’s good,” she nodded. “We should now be invisible to the surveillance network.”

After hearing about Han Suiping’s experience, they discussed it in detail. Given this country’s pervasive surveillance methods, they should have been discovered shortly after they were transported. Lin Sanjiu herself had done many things that now seemed quite conspicuous: arriving soaking wet, eating someone else’s goods as gifts, and wearing scary makeup everywhere. How could they not have been noticed?

Once their biological characteristics were marked in the surveillance network, even if they moved to ten different cities, they would still be under surveillance—just because the civilians in this country couldn’t use the internet didn’t mean the surveillance system wasn’t connected.

That’s why Lin Sanjiu had always felt a subtle feeling of unease; and if she had to say when this discomfort disappeared, it was undoubtedly after she changed her gait.

“You see, if neither facial recognition nor gait recognition can find the biological marker ‘Lin Sanjiu,’ then the monitors simply can’t distinguish us from the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people. ” She had said this when teaching them the techniques of changing gait, “Unless they know exactly when and where I appeared and can use surveillance footage from that location to re-label my new gait.”

Systematic gait changes were not easy; just dragging your feet or tilting your shoulders would have minimal effect on gait recognition. This also meant that, due to the limitations of their overall biological structure, even posthumans could only change their patterns to one or two sets, unable to continuously change.

Destroying cameras wasn’t a viable solution either, not to mention there were so many that a few individuals wouldn’t be able to clear them all. If they damage surveillance in one area, it’s like drawing attention to themselves in that area. Therefore, ensuring that new gaits weren’t discovered and facial features weren’t collected became the best means of invisibility within the surveillance network.

“It’s really over the top.” Wan Qingge poured all the adrenaline pens onto a table, complaining, “The whole country is under surveillance. How much manpower and resources must be spent? They’re paying too much attention to us.”

“Don’t try to sugarcoat it for us.”

He Huan picked up a pen, examining it, and said, “Didn’t Han Suiping see something about it in that encyclopedia? The country discovered posthumans before the people did, so they could cover up and explain away our existence until now. If the first people to encounter posthumans—no matter how small-scale—were civilians, then it wouldn’t be long before the truth came out. What does this show? The surveillance system was established before posthumans appeared.”