"Ouch?!" Seeing his master's condition improving, Brother Hao grabbed the edge of the bed with his front legs, shaking his butt in excitement, and his pink tongue almost licked Lao Zhang's face.
"Oh, oh! You have always been taking care of me, thank you." Zhang Ming patted its furry dog head and laughed.
Brother Hao did show the loyal side of a dog. Under his care, Zhang Ming almost died of thirst!
Well, there is hard work without credit.
"Did that turtle play on the computer?"
"If you keep playing all day long, I'll kill you if you don't do it!" A malicious smile appeared on Lao Zhang's face.
Turning on the computer, as a programmer, he naturally did some tricks on the computer. At least he could still record it after running it for several hours every day.
Unexpectedly, Xiaobai only played computer games for a while on the weekend, which was the same as promised!
"Is it Shimama's ancestor who is disciplining it?"
Go for a walk on the deck and breathe the fresh air. Xiaobai and the pelican flew out to hunt. Only Shimama stayed on the mast, basking in the sun as always.
"Hello, my humble maid Shimama!"
"My humble servant Zhang Ming, how are you!" Shimama said, "Is it hunting time next?"
"I have to wait a little longer. I'm a little weak now. I have to study the soul clone again and complete some funeral arrangements." Zhang Ming looked at the blue and clear sky and the endless sea.
"Funeral affairs?"
"You don't think that ants plotting against Titans is a risk-free thing, do you?" Zhang Ming sighed.
Ever since Xiaobai got the soul-fixing gun, he has been playing more and more fancy games. He rides a pelican and flies to far away places to catch big fish every day.
He also lets things take their own course and won't restrict them too much.
"Xiao Bai and Brother Hao should follow the pelican and escape to a distant place, otherwise even if there is the source of the world, it may not be able to protect it."
Suddenly, a telepathy occurred in my heart.
[Your letter. 】
It turned out that the drift bottle had arrived.
I have been stranded in this sea area for 14 months...
A subtle sense of urgency arose in Zhang Ming's heart.
After picking up the drifting bottle, there was the usual USB flash drive and some letters from relatives.
In 14 months, the earth has not changed too much, except that the size of some cities has expanded, some officials have changed, and relatives and friends have aged another year...
The 31-year-old sister is pregnant again. I don’t know whether it is a son or a daughter. A new life is being given birth to...
Giving birth to two children can be regarded as completing a major life event. Neither the elders nor the country and society can find any fault with it.
Zhang Ming's mood was complicated. When he thought that he was about to face the terrifying fact of turning 36, his heart went cold. He couldn't help but sigh in a low voice: "I'm going to run for fourth grade soon!!"
There was a voice in the dark, saying in my mind: Don't worry, in a few years, you will soon be Ben Wu's little old man!
There was another murmur in the dark, bewitching: Don't worry, if you round up, you have already reached a hundred.
Lao Zhang clearly knew that these voices were stating facts.
But I always feel that they are very noisy, so why don’t you say something nice to comfort them?
As for the earth, there have been several disasters, both big and small, but compared to the "Soul Breaker", they are too mild. Even if humans don't use nuclear bombs, they can still be successfully solved.
Wang Fumin wrote in his letter: "Lao Zhang, how are your living conditions these days? Another year has passed, a year without any achievements, but a year full of achievements."
"Comrade Li Xianfeng should have reported on the radio that several serious supernatural disasters have occurred on the earth, killing and injuring hundreds of thousands of people, which directly confirms the importance of the supernatural investigation department."
"Without a global cooperation mechanism, some originally insignificant disasters will become larger and more serious. Therefore, after these serious disasters, the constraints on all parties have been reduced, and cooperation between countries has become much smoother. "
"The team members have become more obedient, and there have been fewer delays in funding."
"Oh?" Lao Zhang sighed in confusion, why did it go so smoothly?
Lao Wang's handwriting is vigorous and powerful, with a rich and rounded feel like Yan Zhenqing's.
The marks of the pen remain on this piece of paper, which means that Lao Wang had a subtle emotion when he wrote the letter.
Wang Fumin continued to write: "But in fact, we used some political tricks to achieve this goal."
"We discovered some signs of disaster very early and were able to stop them immediately."
"But we deliberately didn't deal with it, but let it go. Some people didn't need to die, but they just died."
"I say this, I don't know if you can understand."
"This is not a natural disaster, but..."
"For the first time, I saw the dark side. In order to achieve the goal, I will do whatever it takes. Many times, this kind of behavior is even more painful than the time when I lost my wife. My [Tiansha Lone Star] ability exploded because of this, and I may become stronger A little bit... but so many people died from it, and I was thinking, what’s the point of doing this job?”
"My boss, Qin Yiwei, told me that when we choose to embark on this path, we must pay a price."
"I asked him, why don't we pay the price ourselves, instead of letting ordinary people pay with their lives?"
"He said that when the price is his turn, he will bear it, but this time it has not been his turn yet."
"Keeping in mind what our ultimate goal is, we need to achieve the unification of the entire Pangea. This is a difficult and ambitious goal. The integration of the paranormal investigation department is only a small first step, not even a prelude. The entire process , must require cruel tactics and iron will."
"I admit that I don't have the skills or the will. I am frustrated, but there is nothing I can do."
"Wang Fumin, please leave a message."
Zhang Ming understood what Wang Fumin was writing. The grand goal they want to achieve is too difficult and has many obstacles, and they must use some means and paths that are inconsistent with their beliefs.
How should we choose at this time?
Since Lao Wang awakened [Tiansha Lone Star], his combat power has improved by leaps and bounds, and he can be regarded as the top level of human beings.
But the quality of life is getting worse day by day. There are worries here and there.
Originally it was just the pain of the death of a loved one, but it will get better after a while. There is a banquet in the world, and everyone has to endure separation and death.
But now, that pain has expanded directly to the struggle between change and faith in the human era!
It’s really one wave after another, continuous.
Unless you take the initiative to exit this vortex, the pain will never end.
However, this kind of thing... Zhang Ming really didn't know how to reply.
Because in his opinion, especially after seeing the wonders of the world built by the Azurite people, he deeply felt that the rise of civilization requires a price.
Even if you pay the price, it may not be useful... This is the saddest thing.
"The people of the earth are paying the price for the disunity of the past!" Zhang Ming sighed with his forehead in his hands, but there was nothing he could do. After all, this piece of shit was the hometown he cherished.
He picked up a pen and wrote: "Hello, Lao Wang, I really can't answer the question you asked."
"But I can share with you a story about an alien civilization and analyze some things from my personal perspective. (Some insights about the blue crystal civilization)"
"From a pragmatist's point of view, if the realization of something requires a huge price, but there is only one path, you can only embark on this path and then go on it firmly."
"Because you must first have a road, and then you can consider whether the road is easy to walk. Otherwise, the opportunity will just slowly slip away."
"The unification of mankind is indeed a grand goal. And this goal is extremely important. It is related to the well-being of the next hundred and thousand years, and to the question of whether human beings can exist in the Sea of Demon Gods."
"From a grand narrative and from a civilized perspective, sacrificing some people is just a cold number."
"For example, as I described in the letter, the Azurite people were building the Pillars of Heaven and hunting the Demon God."
"Countless civilians have died prematurely due to this, and have turned into cold wills. Whether they have no freedom or have been brainwashed in their lives, I admit all of this."
"But this race did go down hard for a grand goal and paid a heavy price. They even failed at the last moment. The long-term plan and the efforts of a billion people came to nothing."
"But I will not criticize or ridicule them. Instead, I think they are a resolute and powerful race."
"Even if there is an accident in the final hunting plan, they will not perish because of it, because in the process of achieving their grand goals, they have gained some hidden spiritual wealth. The value of this wealth is immeasurable, as long as they Once you have emerged from the shadows, it is difficult to be overwhelmed by the difficulties of the outside world.”
"Of course, there will always be contradictions between grand narratives and small personal matters. How to grasp the balance is a key..."
Lao Zhang paused, really not knowing what to write. The tide of time on earth could not affect him personally, and it was impossible for him to sacrifice himself.
Since I couldn't give any advice, I had to write one sentence in the end.
"If you don't want to participate, you can actually stay away from this whirlpool. No one can force you, right? At worst, you can retreat to the countryside and find an island outside Pangu Continent."
"Zhang Ming, leave a message."
As for the other letters in the USB flash drive, they are still the same as before: scientific research papers, emails from political figures, videos of relatives, etc.
Zhang Ming was too lazy to read the overly complicated paper for a while, because he had to do a very dangerous and important job, hunting the demon "worm of time and space".
Whether he can survive or not is still a question...
After wandering alone for so many years, Zhang Ming gradually took a dim view of many things, even life and death.
Maybe he can't feel the joy, anger, sorrow and joy of ordinary people at all, or maybe he is already close to madness...
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