Applause, whistles, cheers, and shouts resounded throughout the square.
No one is directing.
No one encouraged it.
And those waves of sound come from the heartfelt echo of everyone’s heart!
They defeated the wasteland!
They defeated their former selves!
Each of them is the dawn that drives away the long night, the sun rising slowly from the horizon!
"Long live the Alliance!!!"
"Long live the new era!!"
“Togetherness!!”
“Here’s to the survivors!!!”
“Respect each of us!!!”
The resonance caused by the soul-stirring voice ignited the blood in everyone's heart. Even General McClung, who was standing in the audience, couldn't help but want to join in. However, considering the political impact, he only applauded lightly in the end.
.
Unlike the officers from the Eastern Empire who were sitting there, most of the people in the company didn't have any idol baggage.
Especially Yi Chuan, who was standing aside, couldn't help shouting along.
"Awesome——!"
He learned this word from the players.
Although he didn't know what the word meant at first, he gradually understood its usage after using it more.
Mr. Symes, who applauded politely, glanced at this guy, and exchanged glances with McClun calmly, and exchanged words in a low voice.
"Isn't this guy from the company?"
"Those guys are all like this, there's no need to be surprised."
McClung replied softly, then paused for a moment and added his own opinion.
"Also, cheering for the new era is actually not a big deal. It is a good thing for everyone, including the people of Valant... personal opinion."
Ignoring the astonished look in Lord Symes's eyes, Macron ended the topic with a nod.
In fact, His Majesty Saren may not care about their performance at this grand event.
After all, without His Majesty's tacit approval, the reformist faction that he represents and learns from the Alliance would never have appeared.
That gentleman was a truly wise and talented emperor. He did not strangle the progressive forces of the Eastern Empire in order to maintain his supreme power, but found a balance between the progressive forces and the conservative forces.
point.
But therein lies the problem.
Deep down in their hearts, most Weirant people cannot accept overly radical changes...at least those who chose the Eastern Empire cannot accept it.
Even within the reform faction, they admire the Alliance's orbital weapons and land-based naval guns more.
They still need a little time.
However, General McClung believes that this time should not be too long, no more than three generations.
As long as he manages New Sails Port well enough...
Just as McClun was thinking this, two pairs of eyes not far away were staring intently in the direction of the Eastern Empire delegation.
The owners of those two pairs of eyes were the representatives of the Borneo Kingdom and the representatives of the Mammoth Kingdom.
They stood on both sides of the auditorium.
One pair regards it as a role model and worships it, while the other pair regards it as a devil and despises it from the bottom of its heart.
There are reasons to worship, and there are reasons to despise.
In a sense, the Velantans are like a mirror, reflecting the divided spirit of the survivors of Borneo.
Of course, the converse is also true, the Borneos are also the mirror of the Velantans.
They are like two sides of a coin.
Even the vast majority of people on both sides rarely notice it.
Unlike the legions and companies, the representatives of the college were much calmer. Li Ke and Yang Kai, who were standing in the audience, looked calm and composed, as if everything was under control.
that's the truth.
As a neutral force in the wasteland, their plans behind the scenes were basically successful without sacrificing the interests of any survivor force.
The most brilliant conspiracy is probably like this.
Instead of becoming enemies, they and the people they were used became friends with the same interests.
In this way, they can leave this planet with peace of mind. If they meet again in the next few thousand years, they may become allies to renew their relationship.
Of course, there have been some debates within the academy recently, such as whether to continue to implement the plan from 200 years ago.
The instructions given by Dr. Conclusion are that those who want to stay should stay, and those who want to follow him should follow him.
This is the best result.
The ark sailing toward the future could not accommodate everyone, so this would be an explanation for those left behind...
The cheers and cheers were still ringing from level to level.
Unlike the different expressions in the audience, the joy expressed by everyone in the square was much the same.
Wrench shouted "Long live the manager" and his face turned red with excitement. He didn't have the airs of a commander of the Alliance's First Army at all.
The eager eyes were just like the first time he stood in front of Chu Guang with his chest held out and a wooden stick on his shoulder——
'Wrench, No. 006, sir!'
To this day, he still remembers that it was his first real face-to-face conversation with the manager who saved him from the predators.
That adult never looked down on him because of his humble origins, and even made him the captain of the guard.
From that moment on, he made up his mind to follow that gentleman throughout his life——
Even under the teachings of that adult, they no longer only use "loyalty" to demand their own virtues, and they no longer use the word "adult" to address him.
It's not just wrenches.
The same goes for Lu Bei.
Including the Second Army, the Third Army, senior officers of the Staff Department, etc., as well as everyone in the Guards Regiment.
Most of them started following Chu Guang a long time ago, even before the birth of the alliance.
In addition to the wastelanders rescued by Vault 404, many of them were even prisoners of the former.
Such as Vanus.
He was once a traditional Wilant officer, with RDX flowing in his veins. He had been preparing for war from the moment he was born, and he had no doubt that the law of the jungle had been instilled in his head by the Legion since he was a child.
The law of the jungle.
It wasn't until he built a not-so-pretty house with his own bricks that he suddenly realized that the world was not just the parts he saw. There were many things living in places he couldn't see.
Many, many living beings.
They are the cornerstone of the world's existence.
If the vast majority of people in the entire civilization do not receive the most basic equality, then the privileges of a few people are nothing more than castles in the air floating on the garbage heap.
It was from that moment that his life had new ideals.
Rather than the mansions, gold and fine wine that he had already enjoyed enough, he wanted to see what a new, more equal world would look like.
And that person did live up to his expectations and really allowed him to see a new era that he had never seen before——
Every day in the future is worth looking forward to for him...
It was not only Vanus who was thinking this way, but also another beautiful figure standing in the crowd not far away.
The fiery red hair is like the red maple leaves in autumn, falling on her shoulders like a waterfall.
Looking at Chu Guang standing under the monument, Xia Yan's eyes were filled with three-thirds of joy and appreciation, and the remaining seven-thirds were emotions that she could not explain clearly.
Unlike others, including Xiaoyu and Pai, she doesn't have much vision for the new world, and her motivation for working hard is not because of any grand goal, but just to help him.
.
After all, he ate so much, so he had to do something.
And the kindness of that leg...
She has been alone since childhood, living the life of a mercenary one day at a time. If there were no accidents, she would probably be like most of the mercenaries in Boulder City, quietly living in a corner where no one cares.
's death.
In fact, she almost embarked on this path, especially after losing a leg, and she had no illusions about the future.
However, just when she gave up on herself, that person did not abandon her who had given up on herself. He only half-jokingly said to him, "Throw her out if she doesn't study hard."
Of course, he never did this once, and he never fulfilled the harsh words he said more than once. Instead, after the most difficult period passed, he sent her and Xiaoyu, who were still in school, to study in Camp 101.
Looking back now, that was probably the first light she saw in her dark life...
So much so that sometimes she couldn't help but wonder if her father would be as strict and kind as him if he were still around.
Although the future was a little different from what she imagined, she eventually became a better version of herself after learning from Camp 101.
She never imagined that she, who was once illiterate, would have the opportunity to become an engineer and work with other engineers to design the Alliance's first self-developed power armor.
Every day in the future is worth looking forward to, even if she doesn't have any particularly lofty ideals.
"Thanks……"
"I hope I can help you."
Not far from her, Alyssa's little face flushed with excitement, and she clapped her hands red with excitement, contrary to her usual self-conscious manner.
She finally waited for this day.
After the building in the inner city collapsed, she once again witnessed the arrival of a new era——
This moment is the same as the future she envisioned.
After liberating Boulder City, the survivors outside Boulder City finally ushered in a glorious liberation.
From now on they will no longer differentiate between each other.
And not just Qingquan City, but all the people who unite will do the same.
When everyone realized it, the unimagined future had arrived unexpectedly.
She was happy for him from the bottom of her heart.
Not only Alyssa, but also Xiaoyu beside her was also excited.
The little girl who was skinny and skinny at the beginning has grown into a tall and graceful girl.
She didn't expect that Brother Chu could still remember what happened so long ago, so she couldn't help but cover her mouth.
However, even though she tried to restrain her touching emotions, her eyes still couldn't help but shed a glimmer of tears.
"It's hopeless, it's hopeless... This guy has been brainwashed." Pai next to him shook his head in despair, and Xiaoyu could only complain helplessly as he saw "Brother Chu" in his eyes.
but--
No wonder the wastelanders in this land regard him as an earthly god.
Actually, if you think about it, he is right.
Most shelters either screwed up and blamed the people below for not executing the plan well, or they adapted to the wasteland and hid in a corner.
Indeed, there are very few people who burn themselves again and again like them.
But then again, others can’t do it, right?
Of course, even so, there is no denying that they did an amazing thing.
This legendary experience may become the first chapter of some great epic...
In the corner of the square, Yin Fangzheng stood side by side with Qi Liu, the director of the college's Investigation Department.
The latter used to be his boss's boss's boss. In short, his status was so high that he could not see him at all.
But now the two of them are on equal footing.
Even strictly speaking, Yin Fang is slightly higher than his former immediate boss.
After all, he is now the chief scientist of the alliance, which should correspond to the chief technology officer of the academy.
However, he doesn't really follow these strict rules, and he doesn't like to put on high airs.
At this moment, he is just standing here as a former academy prospector, welcoming the new era he has long awaited.
"I'm thinking about something."
Hearing the voice coming from the side, Qi Liu smiled warmly and said in a polite tone.
"What's up?"
Looking in the direction of the monument, Yin Fang narrowed his eyes and said with a carefree smile.
"Sometimes I can't help but wonder if you sent people to chase me all the way here, and you drove me here on purpose."
Qi Liu was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile.
"That's not true. What happened to you was purely a coincidence, or an accident."
"Really?" Yin Fang smiled, "I thought everything was under your calculations, but it seems that's not the case."
"Did you just find out?" Qi Liu did not feel offended. Instead, he joked with a smile, "To be honest, most of our strategies have deviated from the original intention. On the contrary, it is those unintentional actions that have the purpose."
Unexpected results. Sometimes I can't help but wonder if there might be a bigger plan behind this that has enveloped us a long time ago, so that all the mistakes turned out to be the best arrangements."
Yin Fang said in a casual tone.
"My opinion is contrary to yours. It's not that mistakes became the best arrangements, but that people's unanimous choices reversed the worst outcome that should have occurred."
Qi Liu glanced at him in surprise, and a hint of appreciation gradually appeared on his originally calm face.
"It would be great if every prospector in the academy had a pattern like yours."
"How do you know they don't?"
Yin Fang smiled lightly and said in a noncommittal tone.
"But this is probably our difference. We never require every researcher in the alliance to have a chief technology officer position. Instead, we believe that every researcher has the potential to become a chief technology officer. Wait until I'm not around one day
Yes, there will be a thousand me."
Qi Liu tried to imagine the future, and finally turned into a soft sigh.
"...That's really scary."
…
As the speech came to an end, the medal ceremony officially began. The players who participated in the final battle gradually walked up the steps under the monument, and Chu Guang personally placed the medals symbolizing the highest honor on them.
Except for the Burning Legion, which was still floating on the Lagrange Point space station, almost all the alliance's corps participated in this award ceremony, carrying the shining golden glory on their chests, and walked towards the crowd with their heads held high, accepting it.
People's flowers, applause, cheers and appreciation.
In a sense, this can be regarded as a military parade with unique characteristics of the alliance.
And for players, this kind of realization of self-worth and sublimation of life goals is simply exciting!
After all, that is an experience that no amount of money can buy.
Some old players were relatively calm due to previous experience, while some new players who had never seen the world were so excited that they almost dropped the game on the spot.
The grand ceremony is still going on. The aerial drone captured the scene from multiple angles and transmitted the live data back to the endpoint cloud in Ideal City.
At present, the users of Endpoint Cloud are not only the residents of Ideal City, but also include the major survivor settlements in the central and eastern regions of the entire Central Continent.
Including Dawn City in the River Valley Province, Weifu City in the Jinchuan Province, as well as settlements on the Death Coast and Fries Port in the Baiyue Strait, etc.
There are even islands in the South China Sea Alliance, Kingallen Port, Silver Moon Bay, etc.
For those survivors who are unable to visit the scene in person, they also have the opportunity to see the grand scene in the Dawn City Square and share the joy of the new era with the local survivors...
At the same time, similar grand events occurred not only in Dawn City, but also in other places in the wasteland.
Emperor Saren of the Eastern Empire also delivered a speech about the new era while standing on the castle of Norton City, and belatedly awarded General Griffin a commemorative medal with mixed reputations.
He was a conscientious general, but unfortunately he was on the wrong team and with the wrong person.
Now that the Eastern Expansion Sect has fallen into disarray, Saren is finally able to close the coffin that has been there for a long time.
In the future, the Eastern Empire will enter a new historical stage. They say that what needs to be considered will no longer be in which direction to expand, but to find a suitable balance between the old and the new.
The other side of the great desert.
Mahatma Zaid, who executed the traitor Grove and his followers, happily announced a decisive victory in the war on red soil, and made violent comments saying that he never said that red soil cannot be eaten, and that it is okay to eat too much.
Eat a little bit of soil for the tooth festival.
The new education committee member and publicity committee member who succeeded Sir Carbaha immediately patched up what he had said before. Sawa, the committee chairman who was behind him, immediately raised his hand to say that those words were his own. Everyone started the next bloody storm in unison.
game.
But what is gratifying is that the red soil that was once forbidden to be eaten can now be eaten. It is as if the red soil suddenly no longer takes up farmland overnight, but has become a spice of life.
In dealing with the devastating famine in Borneo, General Rowell's red soil once again played an indelible and decisive role, making everyone who was overfed finally feel proud again.
This time no one will deny his achievements.
It's just a pity that the person who once wrote a book and biography for him has been buried in the soil where he planted it.
Even if this is not his original intention...
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Great Rift Valley.
In the conference room carved from obsidian, the chief executive, who had lived for who knows how many years, looked at the light blue light floating in front of the conference table with a smile on his face, a hint of approval in his eyes.
"I was indeed right, that person is the 'Professor'... No wonder he can do what I can't do."
Dr. Conclusion, who was sitting at the table with his arms folded, had a hint of sarcasm in his eyes and said with a chuckle.
"You know, what my teacher was most afraid of when he was alive was that you thought this way."
The chief raised his eyebrows.
"In life?"
Conclusion The doctor asked rhetorically.
"Do you think he's still alive?"
"..."
The chief was silent for a long time, with a hint of loneliness and sadness floating in his cloudy pupils.
This kind of emotion rarely appeared on his face, but it stayed for a particularly long time at this moment.
"makes sense……"
As if he was relieved, he let out a long sigh and said with a bit of self-deprecation in his voice.
"It's been 200 years...I still remember the first time I met him, when I was a child. Haha, this time it's a white-haired person giving a black-haired person...actually it's quite good."
The only flaw is that apart from the old popsicles frozen in the refrigerator, there are not many people left from that era.
New Era…
In fact, he wasn't that eager to see it.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why he has never been able to muster any motivation.
Of course.
There really isn't much they can do nowadays.
The former War Construction Committee was indeed very strong and powerful...but that was more than a century ago after all, and now they can only rely on the power of the Holy Shield to stay in a corner.
After taking a look at the chief who was still nostalgic for the past, Dr. Conclusion suddenly thought of something and said to himself.
"... Speaking of which, the war in the Free State seems to be over. In the end, it seems that Mayor Odo who led the citizens to revolt won."
The academy did not directly intervene in this war, but only watched it from a distance.
The Alliance and Enterprise established a safe zone outside the Free State to accommodate civilians, and did nothing else.
Of course, if some volunteers ran over to join the war, that was another matter.
After all, the Free State and the Firestone Group had exported mercenaries before, but this time they were just hit by a boomerang.
The chief didn't show much surprise on his face, it was obvious that he knew.
In fact, the person who prompted Mayor Odo to make changes was himself.
"...Really? It's good. Although Sigma is also a good young man, and it is indeed difficult to climb from the bottom of the slum to the top of the building, but his era is over after all."
The only bad thing about him is probably that he did not make changes before it was too late, but instead made the suffering he endured intensified on others.
When he becomes a dragon, he will always meet a dragon slayer stronger than him, not to mention that the entire wasteland will change.
"Haha, it's quite easy for you to be a hands-off shopkeeper."
Conclusion The doctor said lightly and sarcastically.
However, the chief didn't pay attention and just said in a calm voice.
"It's not that I chose to be a hands-off boss, but I had to do it. I also tried to control everything, just like when you were still here, but the end result was that everything would get out of control, as you once saw
of."
Conclusion The doctor shrugged noncommittally.
He does not agree with this statement. The academy has enough positive examples in "cybernetics".
Of course, he also admitted that this was achieved at the expense of some people.
The chief was silent and continued for a while.
"The fate of the Free State is doomed. From the moment it was established, today's situation has been doomed. Those who want stability but do not want to be controlled can only end up drifting above the clouds like hot air balloons, and reach the
Free fall after the critical point..."
"This is not just the case in the Free State, but in many places. Their current situation is not because a guy named Sigma deceived them, but because all of them are liars...successful liars or failed liars."
"As for the guy named Sigma, he is just the most successful among them... Of course, they are now aware of the problem, so they will soon enter the next stage of history."
When he said this, the chief suddenly turned his attention to Dr. Conclusion and spoke with a somewhat interested tone.
"Actually, what I'm most curious about is you...even if the Wasteland Era is over, do you still plan to take those researchers to wander outside the solar system?"
He nodded in conclusion.
"Yes."
The chief looked at him in surprise and suddenly said with a smile.
"I never thought there would be someone more stubborn than an old antique like me in this world."
Conclusion smiled lightly, not taking this guy's teasing to heart at all, and said with an indifferent attitude.
"It has nothing to do with stubbornness, or even the Wasteland Era. I just want to fulfill my mentor's last wish."
There was a bit of astonishment in the chief's eyes.
"Your tutor...you mean the professor? This is what he asked you to do?"
There was a hint of urgency in his voice, as if he was eager to get a definite answer.
However, he just shook his head in conclusion and didn't care about the old man's opinion at all, and just kept talking to himself.
"He didn't ask me to do this, he just told me...if the Wasteland Era hadn't happened, he would most likely have led a group of like-minded people to do this, instead of using the resources and resources planned for the 'Ark'
Funds are used to repair the black boxes and shelters."
The chief stared at him in astonishment for a long time, and then murmured to himself.
"...I see. I've always wondered why it's called Project Ark. That's what it means."
Ignoring the murmurings of the Great Rift Valley chief, he continued in a casual tone.
"He also told me a lot, saying that if nothing unexpected happens, this ark heading toward the future will incubate an archaeological and academic organization called the Academy in this galaxy in a few thousand years..."
"Unlike the current academy, the academy that exists in the future is a cross-galactic cooperative organization with the goal of excavating the remains of pioneer civilizations and exploring the origin of the universe. Its members are not even limited to humans, but also aliens from other civilizations.
"
"While it may sound a bit too farsighted, I will never forget the look on his face when he described that picture to me... as if he had actually seen those things."
"From then on, I made up my mind. I planned to inherit his legacy and do this for him... For this reason, I uploaded my thoughts to the circuit board and exchanged my death for an endless lifespan."
"Just in time for the disintegration of the War Construction Committee, so many people were eager to leave this 'dead planet', so many people and I had a common goal. Thanks to this, the academy is no longer a
Instead of being a loose academic organization, it has actual political power."
When he said this, the man floating in the holographic image showed a faint smile on his face.
"It's actually quite good."
"Now we can filter out those who are fleeing and leave them on the ground, and only bring those like-minded people to do this great thing."
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(Thanks to the leader of the book friend "Heart Is No Longer Warm" for the reward!!! PS: The foreshadowing about the Ark Project is actually related to the ending of a far-sighted if line that was written a long time ago, but I can't find the manuscript. I'll make up for it later by fate.
Bar……)
This chapter has been completed!