The population dropped sharply by 85%, and the upper city on the moon became even more sparsely populated.
At night, tens of thousands of survivors gathered in the square in front of the Central Bay City Church. They lit candles and paid silent tribute to the deceased.
Faced with sudden mass deaths, many people converted to the Twin Gods, churches were overcrowded, and resonators were buzzing. It seemed that at such a moment, faith had become the only safe haven.
Little did they know that the Twin Gods were among them.
Li Liang was sitting in a remote corner of the square, with a candle also lit in front of him.
Next to her, Yuan Quan played the harmonica, playing "Auld Lang Syne". It sounded like she was not very skilled, but it was like the humming she sang when she was scoring her own movie, with a touch of true emotion.
Looking at the crowd of shadowy people, Li Liang found that they were far calmer than he imagined. Even if the deceased was a relative, a partner, or a child, no one cried in grief, and no one raised their arms and shouted, demanding the truth.
There may be other representatives to communicate with the Interstellar Expeditionary Force, but at least the memorial ceremony in front of them is more like a farewell.
Li Liang vaguely felt that from the lower city, to the upper city, and then to the family, the emotions were decreasing.
The altar deep in the church is divided into four floors, which undoubtedly represents the social structure of this era. The bottom floor is the lower city, the second floor is the upper city, and the third floor is the twelve main gods in the pantheon and the heroic spirits in the Hall of Valor. The fourth level is the twin gods.
With each level crossed, the level of technology mastered by people increases significantly, but their emotions become increasingly indifferent.
Yuan Quan said that people in Shangcheng District like to look for suffering in movies, but when the separation of life and death really comes, the sadness is light and airy, just like the candle smoke floating in the air at this moment.
Is emotion simply a backward chemical illusion that maintains the continuation of a population, and will eventually die out as the level of civilization increases?
At this time.
An android sat down next to him, looked forward, and said calmly: "Master, the prophecy of No. 0 is being fulfilled."
Li Liang turned around and took a look, unsure whether this android was Zero Four, Zero Seven, Zero Nine or Zero One Zero, but it made no difference which one it was.
"How many people died?"
"69224586, 85% of the total population."
The sound of the harmonica paused for a moment, and then the sound trembled as it continued.
Li Liang took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly, feeling bitter in his heart. He found that facing such numbers, he felt far less sympathetic than he imagined.
Because he didn't know any of the more than 60 million people.
Probably after all, people are narrow-minded.
He suddenly remembered a person and asked: "There is a woman named... Si Si, is she still alive?"
The android pushed thousands of photos into his retinal projection.
"She showed up on the beach near where I crashed and lent me a spaceship."
"Scope reduced based on system operation traces."
The photos were reduced to only ten.
"This person," Li Liang nodded in the air.
The android said calmly: "Dead."
Li Liang was stunned for a moment, and the woman's clear facial features and fiery enthusiasm appeared in his mind.
Her death has nothing to do with this era and every moment in the future.
Later, more and more faces appeared in his heart, including Malena who died in Zhongjing, Tu Ran, middlemen, members of the Mayfly, even the Chief of Staff, the Zhuos people, etc...
The night wind is getting cooler.
for a long time.
Another person approached, bent down and whispered: "Mr. Li Liang."
Li Liang turned his head and saw the silver epaulette of the visitor.
He nodded, waited for the man to leave, and said to the android: "Does the lunar core engine have any impact here?"
"Shangcheng District has a complete backup energy system, which can support thirty-one days and seven hours based on the current consumption rate."
"Well," Li Liang stood up, looked at the busy androids among the crowd, and said calmly: "Hiding in Neuromansion should not be the destination of androids."
The android smiled, and its voice turned into a "quintet": "Thank you," it also looked at the square, "After a long wait, we finally waited for the right person and set foot on the right path. Don't worry, we will prove it." Your own value, Mr. Li Liang."
Li Liang squeezed the android's shoulder heavily and walked towards the spaceship not far away.
In the next three days, he met many people.
Most of the time, he wore tactical armor that covered his entire body, stood quietly behind Robben or Andre, met batch after batch of officers, and listened to preaching again and again.
Only then did he realize that since no other civilizations had been discovered in the universe, the Deep Space Defense Corps and the Interstellar Expeditionary Corps had not only been significantly reduced in force, but their military ranks had also become extremely streamlined.
Below the chief of the Joint Staff are the chief and deputy commanders of each mothership, and the chief and deputy commanders of each base in the deep space defense line. Next, they are divided into four levels of sergeants, including captains of all levels of the twelve fleets, scientific directors, security directors Supervisor, Medical Supervisor, Operations Supervisor, Engineer Supervisor, etc., and then below are Private First Class and Private Fourth Class.
Compared with a thousand years ago, the complex levels of generals, lieutenants, colonels, etc. were canceled. The fundamental reason is... Years of deep space exploration have confirmed that mankind has no enemies, not even imaginary enemies, so that in every fleet, the combat director Ranking tends to be lowest, with scientific supervisors being the highest.
For example, Jin Ji is the fourth-level sergeant major of the Galaxy's emergency response force. He is under the jurisdiction of the security director, but he is at the same level as the Galaxy's operations director.
In addition, among the only three remaining motherships, the Axia, the Lanikea, and the Galaxy, the Axia is in a semi-decommissioned state, the Lanikea is smaller in size, and only the Galaxy can be considered a true mothership. flagship, so when the Joint Staff lost contact, Robben, the commander-in-chief of the Galaxy, became the de facto top officer of the deep space defense and interstellar expeditionary forces.
Perhaps for this reason, Xi'an passed a secret message directly to Robben.
As Robben went deep into the soldiers again and again, giving passionate speeches, and the fleets controlled by the Marginal Business Department, including the interstellar cloud guard fleet, returned one after another, the Deep Space Defense Corps and the Interstellar Expeditionary Corps were once again united and ready to go. .
Subsequently, the fleet belonging to the Temple Guard Corps arrived in lunar orbit and conducted a handover ceremony with Robben.
The tampering of the fleet system by the Zhuos Laboratory was corrected, and all spaceships were once again controlled by Xi'an. Then, Robben was promoted to the chief of staff of the Joint Staff with an exception.
Before the ceremony was over, a large number of drones swarmed into the Galaxy, Axia, and Lanikea, called routine inspections, and they were actually searching.
Unfortunately, their target was not inside any spacecraft, but was hiding in an abandoned spacecraft, hanging on the outside of the Galaxy, very close to the engine.
Electromagnetic fields and gravitational fields enveloped this area, almost blocking all detection methods.
This small one-man fighter is not fully enclosed. There is a transparent curved window in the front of the cockpit.
On the last day, Li Liang had been calmly looking at the vast universe.
He once saw the Axia, like a lying Optimus pillar crossing his eyes, but when it appeared from a very far distance again, it looked like a "slender" long needle.
Spaceships of all sizes emerged from the void and disappeared into the black universe like fireworks.
He also saw Xi'an's temple garrison. Those spaceships appeared from the golden portal and were wrapped in thick "clouds". Now he already knew that this kind of clouds were similar to the "clouds" that intercepted the orbiting spacecraft before. It is the "Cherenkov effect" formed when the hyperspace drag cable is excited.
In the spirit's vision, those clouds are composed of intertwined spirits, like a net.
at some point.
When the vision was obscured by blue light, the entire fleet began to set sail.
Li Liang confirmed that the bloated inertial compensation equipment and life support system were operating normally. Before closing the fairing, he took one last look at the moon below.
The headquarters of Dros has been completely sealed, and the temple garrison will be stationed in orbit until the "new world" is conceived. Before that, Xi'an refuses the goblins to come to check.
This situation comes from the wrestling between the two parties in the negotiation field. The more important reason is that no one can guess that the 'new world' at this time is in a strange state of suspension, with three souls fighting to the death.
He retracted his gaze, clicked on the light curtain in front of him, and closed the fairing.
In the darkness, Li Liang remembered the angry roar of the heroic spirit.
If the dark age was created by him, and the nuclear war was just to cover up the consciousness of countless people being swallowed by him, then now, fate has given him the opportunity to choose again.
Maybe everything he experienced was originally a redemption, or maybe it was just the beginning of another huge conspiracy.
In fact, it doesn't matter.
He will keep moving forward, that's all.
