In biology, there is an insect called a "praying mantis". When they reproduce, the larger female mantis will eat her mate.
However, some male mantises are willing to be such "victims". They face the blade without resisting or escaping. Some zoologists believe that this is because the male mantis is exhausted and unable to escape. But some people believe that after the courtship activity is over, the male praying mantis has completed its only mission in life - nurturing the next generation.
At this point, its survival is meaningless. If it can provide sufficient nutrition to the next generation, it can devote itself to passing on its genes.
Although there are still doubts about this speculation, countless praying mantises did die because of reproduction, and they used their lives to pave the way for the next generation to survive.
"Click" the page of the book closed, and the white-haired young man stood up. Behind him was an endless stretch of hose like a blood vessel.
His pale fingers rested on the "Entomology for 4-Year-Old Children" on the table. This book was found in some ruins at the edge of the world. It was a popular science book before the catastrophe of the century.
He walked slowly along the long table. On the ice-white mechanical table, there were several bright red scrolls hanging down. He removed the hot air machine and the ink dried on the red paper, revealing a pair of Spring Festival couplets with ink characters written on them.
First line: [I wish you happiness every day. 】
Second line: [Also wish me happiness every day. 】
"Uh-huh." Lin Guang picked up the couplet and recalled the time when he wrote these two lines.
He couldn't write. This character was taught to him stroke by stroke by a Dragon Kingdom player he captured. When he wrote it, he thought it looked pretty good. Maybe he was very talented.
He heard that today is "New Year's Eve" in Luvis's world, which is equivalent to the Fuyuan Festival here. It is a big annual festival, and every household will write Spring Festival couplets and paste them on the door.
There is no such custom in the ruined world, so he can only find a pair of red paper and write it himself. He didn't know what to write. The captured Dragon Kingdom player said, "Spring Festival couplets are expectations for the new year," so he wrote this.
He hopes that Luvis will be happy every day.
As his memory gradually revived on this day, he remembered many things.
... He seems to be very old and yet very young.
This story seems to be ending, but it also seems like it has never begun.
Those fragmented memories, those looming fragments, every time he recalled them, he felt like he was about to suffocate... Why is the nature of this world like this? This world is simply tens of thousands of times crueler than him.
"Click!" He rolled up the couplet and walked through the empty corridor. Starlight shone through the floor-to-ceiling glass. In front of him was a corridor as deep as a transparent ventilation duct, like a distant skyline.
The City of God is not as lively and noisy as the gathering place, but more of a ridiculous illusion. In such a huge city, he would often feel like a part of himself was left behind for a certain day, unable to escape and constantly being lost.
At this moment, he suddenly felt deeply sad, which Violet called "loneliness." Because no one can hold his hand, no one can walk with him.
He turned his head and saw that the screen hanging on the wall was still reporting the battle situation on the front line. It was already nine o'clock in the evening, and the screen was filled with bursts of light.
At the forefront was an elite legion, their bloody cloaks fluttering in the wind. The heavy snow covered them like a gauze, and the blue defensive shields were propped up. They were like a wave rushing towards the city wall.
"Fenghuo obeys the order——!"
Sen Kelstia rushed to the front, his cloak flying, just like sixteen years ago.
However, beside him, there was no judge Tredia wearing goggles, no taciturn deputy lord Xia Sheng, no Cheng Luohe carrying a vermilion sniper rifle, and no Yao Wen wearing a shell necklace.
Time is like a wave, washing away countless companions, leaving only a few empty survivors.
"boom--!"
The artillery fire exploded, and the whole land seemed to shake violently. The deafening explosions spread across half of the battlefield. People raised their defensive shields and made a shrill scream when they faced the attack.
As long as someone falls, someone will immediately take over, forming an everlasting and tight line of defense. Mori cut through the enemy's ranks like a bloody sword and became one with his soldiers.
Sen's headset kept transmitting sounds from various channels, which were instant orders issued by the twelve commanders overlooking the battlefield. At this time, everyone seemed to have one brain.
In the sky, the battle between the powerful warriors was still going on, and Su Lin's flames dyed the night golden red. The fall of the four outer cities is inevitable.
Lin Guang glanced coldly at the unfavorable battlefield on the screen and continued walking forward.
"My lord, [--you are the music, the sky, the palace, the river, the angel, the deep rose that God shows to my blind eyes, secret and without end]."
A soft female voice sounded, and Lin Guang paused slightly.
Violet leaned against the wall, curling her rose-dyed curly hair charmingly. The floor-length red skirt was draped down like petals, revealing her smooth long legs. She is a player and has been working as Lin Guang's subordinate in the City of Gods. She has high emotional intelligence and is good at talking, so she has never been strangled to death by the unpredictable Lin Guang.
However, Lin Guang didn't even look at her, and walked past on the ground.
Violet sighed slightly.
"Sir, it's snowing tonight..." She looked out the window, which had been darkened by the night. In addition to the ice-white isolation wall, this central building is full of floor-to-ceiling glass that can provide an unobstructed view of the outside world. It is completely transparent, like a giant hexagonal diamond.
At this time, as long as she raised her eyes, she could see the falling goose feathers of snow, which were floating outside the glass like twinkling stars. A light layer of snow had already fallen on the building below.
"My mother likes snow very much. She is from the Dragon Kingdom. Whenever it snows, she will sit in our imitation Dragon Kingdom garden all night and watch the snow fall on the branches. It seems that she can return to her hometown..." Violet said softly.
Lin Guang still walked forward without looking back.
"So, I know that the upper and lower couplets of your Spring Festival couplets need to be at least symmetrical in number." Violet's voice floated over.
Lin Guang stopped.
He immediately looked at the Spring Festival couplets in his hand. The two columns of characters were really different in length.
For a moment, Violet's eyes were mixed with pity and sympathy. She felt that a person like Lin Guang could not be more pitiable. Like an inevitable tragedy, Violet didn't think he would have a good ending.
"...Spring couplets need to be symmetrical." Lin Guang said: "That Dragon Kingdom player didn't tell me this. I'm going to go down and kill him."
"If you kill players again, Lewis' favorability will decrease again." Violet said.
Lin Guang only realized this, and his thoughts were always slow.
Violet turned her head and looked at the heavy snow outside. The transparent glass is so transparent that it is almost invisible to the naked eye, and heavy snow seems to be drifting in along this glass.
The sky was dark and chaotic, with only half a cold moon floating among the sparse frozen clouds. The City of God was completely silent, the snowflakes were like blown away dandelions, and the white stars were whirling.
She suddenly felt that this scene was beautiful - if she could not see the millions of lives that perished on the battlefield. If you were to enjoy the snow alone in such a quiet city, you would be in a good mood. Such a snowy night... may be the last night of the world...
The fire seemed to be getting closer and closer, and she didn't know if it was an illusion, but she seemed to hear the approaching shouts of death and the sound of gunfire. Now, everyone is waiting for judgment, and there seems to be a guillotine hanging high above the City of Gods.
"Lord Lin Guang, I want to say a few words to you." She said: "When people are born, people are divided into high and low. Some people bully the strong and show weakness and slaughter wantonly, and some people oppress the lower class for selfish desires. The launch of the Dawn War was exactly It is people's struggle and dissatisfaction with this kind of 'injustice'. They long for everyone to be treated equally and to be free and liberated. However, after you launched a nuclear explosion, mankind perished. Everyone died in the same way. At the last moment of life, everyone When people get 'equality', will they get punishment or reward?"
Her words fell to the ground and remained silent for a long time.
"..." Lin Guang looked at her blankly.
"You haven't found happiness yet, you haven't felt 'love' yet." Violet said: "Those human beings have achieved enough happiness, some have descendants, some die hand in hand with their lovers, and some People shed their blood on the battlefield, did not despair of the final outcome, and fought until the last moment at six in the morning. If everyone died at the same time, but you did not feel happy, who would be the loser? Wouldn't you be the same? Where are the others buried with them?”
Lin Guang was silent.
"And, I remember..." Violet stood up straight and combed her hair behind her shoulders: "The City of God is like spring all year round, and it will never snow."
Her eyes slowly moved and looked in Lin Guang's direction: "Now, are you unable to control the warm weather?"
Lin Guang looked away.
He stopped looking at Violet and walked deeper into the corridor as long as the skyline.
Violet seemed to see a world of sorrow in him.
Justice is originally a concept defined by humans themselves, and even the criteria for judging the value of everything are determined by humans themselves. Once this value judgment standard falls into the hands of one person, and selfishness is not restricted... it will lead to the birth of disaster and tragedy.
In Violet's eyes, Linguang is an unrestricted tragedy.
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"The Origin Stone barrier has been raised, and the inner city will enter a period of comprehensive defense. At present, there are sufficient survival resources, and the defense of the outer city is ready. The herd of thousand-level alien beasts at 30 degrees east by north has been cleared. The Origin Stone Guards can proceed from this direction. Go out."
"Repeat, city emergency defense is activated..."
Under the emergency live broadcast on the Doomsday City screen, hundreds of thousands of people were evacuating, carrying large and small bags, and the lampposts cast uncertain shadows.
A white thunder-like barrier rose in the sky, emitting pure white source light.
There was almost no sound in the entire city except for people's footsteps.
Doomsday City is in the "Third Battlefield". Compared with the "First Battlefield", the underground Source Stone Battlefield, and the "Second Battlefield," the million-legion assault battle, the "Third Battlefield" is more conservative. Once the first and second battlefields are defeated, this place will become the hope after the nuclear explosion.
Culture, art, armaments, and technology in the three fields, all human wisdom are preserved here. Even if the external battlefield truly fails completely, human beings will at least not lose traces of their existence.
The city screen repeatedly played the evacuation regulations. After a moment, there was a "click" and an announcement came:
"The city's alert will be suspended for one minute. I will transfer to the escort department, Miss Luo Kelstia..."
The screen switched, and the face of the black-haired girl appeared on the live broadcast interface. Her voice was steady:
"After the people in the inner city have been evacuated, please stay calm. There are still nine hours before the final time of the nuclear explosion. If the nuclear explosion cannot be stopped, we are ready to survive the nuclear winter. Doomsday City is the largest main city of the freedom camp. Humanity There are still sparks. In addition, the Wartime Reconnaissance Department has detected large movement traces in the southeast direction. Please go out and avoid this direction. I will go here with the escort to clean up the enemy troops and prevent them from affecting the construction of the nuclear barrier."
She wanted to say something else, but a sharp shout came from beside her: "——There is no need to evacuate!"
"Return to city alert below." Yueyue said quickly, and her face disappeared from the live broadcast screen.
She turned around, and between the humming giant computers, a middle-aged man wearing a military hat walked over. The emblem on the man's shoulder was "Commander". Now the commander-in-chief Tredia, Xia Sheng, Xi, and Noah are not here. This little commander is the one with the highest military rank in the city.
Yue Yue: "Commander Colby. There is no need to say this when I am relaying the message. The people will fall into chaos."
"Don't worry about the Ministry of Military Intelligence's affairs." Colby said coldly: "This city is hopeless. The experimental team has just tested that the Origin Stone barrier is not enough to stop a nuclear explosion on the scale of the City of Gods. Only four digits of survivors can be saved, and the residual radiation is enough to kill 90% of the people underground. What's more, do you know what nuclear winter is?"
Yueyue: "It doesn't matter, I want to save you."
"Commander Kelstia, please follow us to evacuate immediately." Colby said: "The other twelve commanders have decided to go to the edge of the world, which will not be covered by nuclear explosions. With technology and resources, we will also Can survive. Please come with us, we need your power to kill strange beasts and allow you to bring three family members or friends with you."
Yueyue: "Let's go."
She stood up straight and put her hand on the hilt of the lightsaber: "If there are not even a thousand people left in a group, then this group is no different from extinction. You can go to the edge of the world to survive. But I promised him that I will stay here. This city.”
"Because of Asa Akto?" Colby said: "I admit that he is great. And it is precisely because of his actions that we must seize this buffer time to escape - we are the last firewood of civilization. "
"Goodbye." Yueyue walked towards the outside world without looking back, her slender figure casting a long black shadow under the light.
Her voice was like jade beads falling to the ground:
"You don't have to include me in the fire."
