A sudden power outage plunged the entire shelter into darkness.

The elevator was stuck underground, thus completely cutting off the communication between the underground and the surface. The power engine of the shelter door was destroyed by maintenance workers, preventing Xu Anhua from closing the door.

Due to the defection of some security forces, all residents evacuated to the lobby of the shelter. As a result, even if the power was restored ten minutes later and Xu Anhua dropped sleeping gas throughout the shelter, it would be of no avail.

The sword hanging above everyone's heads has been completely removed.

Next, it’s time to swing the sword!

Eighty percent of the security forces chose to side with the Provisional Council, and 20% of the former government security forces pledged their loyalty. A fierce gun battle broke out between the two sides on the main thoroughfare of the shelter, and they advanced towards the office of the shelter director.

The residents first occupied the arsenal and then liberated the solitary room. The united residents liberated the suppressed warriors. The warriors cheered and began to arm themselves with the distributed weapons.

More than two hundred residents wearing gas masks and armed with automatic rifles joined the battle. The balance of victory fell hard on all residents of the shelter.

Tian Kai led the last ten soldiers to resist fiercely. They were the first batch of soldiers to enter the shelter. Twenty years ago, they were a group of young men who had just joined the army, and now they have reached the age to retire.

However, they never imagined that at the last moment of their mission, they would face the residents they were guarding.

The feeling of fratricide is suffocating.

Tian Kai pulled the trigger desperately, trying not to think about the names of those faces.

However he couldn't do it.

In the scope, he saw his neighbor's child. He still remembered that child said: He wanted to be a botanist and wait until the day the shelter opened to see the grass growing on the radioactive soil.

, what kind of tenacity does he live with?

However, he was already dead, lying in a pool of blood that had not yet cooled down.

And him, and her, and even it...

"Ahhh!"

Finally, someone could no longer stand the mental torture. A soldier rushed out of the bunker and fired wildly with a rifle.

"Damn it! Come back!" However, Tian Kai failed to hold him back and watched helplessly as the comrade was shot with several bloody holes by the mob's bullets.

He died, but there was no pain on his face, but a trace of relief!

A punch hit the wall of the bunker hard. Tian Kai gasped for breath and his chest heaved violently.

"Damn it! Cough, cough!" A mouthful of spit mixed with blood splashed onto the wall.

He didn't know who to curse or who to curse.

The noisy bullets covered up all sounds.

At this moment, everyone is dumb.

In the director's office, through the bulletproof glass, Xu Anhua looked silently at the war that was so close at hand.

too weak.

It can't even be called a small-scale regional conflict.

Before the catastrophe, she had commanded an airborne mechanical brigade and suppressed a riot planned and carried out by opposition forces on the East Asian border. Tanks ran over flesh and blood, a hell far more tragic than this. She did not know how many times she had seen it.

.

But for some reason, she felt a little heartache at this moment.

Academician Qin stood beside her, staring out the window in silence as well.

At this moment, the trembling figure formed a sharp contrast with the young figure.

Just like a father and his daughter.

After a long time, Xu Anhua asked: "Aren't you going to stand with the people?"

Academician Qin shook his head: "I stand on the side of truth."

"Really?" Xu Anhua looked at the frail old man with some surprise.

"Because the truth is often the most difficult for people to accept, and those who pursue the truth are often lonely."

"That's really regrettable." Xu Anhua looked out the window silently.

The sparks of the warhead jumped between the cold steel, flashing in the center of a pair of angry pupils. The soldiers who were still loyal to her were retreating steadily, and as far as supplies were concerned, they no longer had what they had.

"Human nature is a burden to survival, but if it weren't for this burden, civilization would not have been born."

"You want to say, am I wrong?" Xu Anhua said calmly.

"You're not wrong, but you're not right."

Yes, but isn't it correct? Xu Anhua chewed this sentence over and over in her heart, although she knew that there was little point in thinking about this issue now.

After a long silence, Xu Anhua asked: "Actually, you knew this would be the result from the beginning, right?"

He is always more taciturn than anyone else, but he always sees things more clearly than anyone else.

She had doubts.

Academician Qin did not deny it, but the smile on his face was a little bitter.

"Well, I don't deny it."

"Why?" Xu Anhua didn't look at him, but continued to ask in a voice without any emotion.

"I thought you had discovered it a long time ago." Academician Qin sighed.

Xu Anhua waited for the old man's next words, but found that he had stopped speaking.

"Even at the last moment, can't you tell me the reason?" Xu Anhua asked.

Academician Qin just responded to her with silence.

"I have been thinking about a question for a long time. Is the candidate for the director of the shelter carefully considered?"

"You can think so." Academician Qin said softly.

"I used the shelter's supercomputer to re-establish a mathematical model of the population growth curve and energy consumption rate, but the results surprised me... From the beginning, the shelter's energy was not enough.

Yes, right?"

Academician Qin did not answer, but at this time, silence is often equivalent to acquiescence.

Seeing the expression on Xu Anhua's face, he knew that she had vaguely guessed it.

After a long time, Academician Qin sighed and said softly: "Can't you carry out the mission to the end?"

There was a hint of pleading in that voice.

"Okay." Xu Anhua replied calmly.

Academician Qin asked in surprise: "Aren't you afraid?"

Xu Anhua shook his head: "It's just death."

Outside the window, Tian Kai finally collapsed.

He held one hand against the wall, blood dripping from his sleeves.

Struggling, he raised the pistol and aimed it with his left eye, which was blinded by blood.

Perhaps the magazine was empty, as the black muzzle did not emit flame for a long time.

At this time, a mob rushed in front of him, brandished a fire ax, and severely chopped off his head. Blood dripped from the ax blade, and the "hero" enjoyed the cheers and hugs of the crowd.

He held up his powerful arms and the bloody battle ax, like the torch of the Statue of Liberty.

Through the bulletproof glass, Xu Anhua watched this last scene quietly.

She noticed that the man holding the battle ax was grinning ferociously at her.

It's like the smile of the Statue of Liberty.

Human nature is a burden to survival, but without this burden, civilization would not have been born. But the birth of civilization will be accompanied by bloody barbarism.

She seemed to understand something, but in the face of the survival of the entire civilization, one person's understanding

It doesn't change anything.

"At the end of the mission, can I ask you one last question?" Xu Anhua said expressionlessly while looking at him.

Academician Qin was silent.

"Then I'll take it as your default." Xu Anhua continued.

When she walked to the window, she lightly touched the bulletproof glass with her hand, and the ax blade struck the glass violently, striking the spot where her finger touched lightly as if to demonstrate.

Feeling the trembling like cicada wings coming from her fingertips, she slowly asked.

"Is the glass of this window built according to laboratory standards?"

"Yes."

Although there were only two words, it made Xu Anhua's cold heart feel a little comfort.

The mob outside the window saw that they could not open the office door, so they brought in a welding gun. From the crowd, she saw Wu Chi's face, and also saw the bruises on his face.

"If you release gas at this time, there is a certain chance that the people outside the door will be killed." Academician Qin suddenly said.
To be continued...