======One of the Roses·2103

"We have no other option."

"Everything in the world is eating humans, and our numbers are decreasing day by day."

"Child," Mrs. Lu took off the golden rose badge from her chest and placed it in her palm. Then she slowly closed her fingers so that she could feel the undulating soft lines of the rose petals, as if touching them.

Got a real rose.

"Everyone must pick up the weapons they can to fight against this era, everyone." Her voice was as gentle as water waves.

"But you won't get anything, Mom."

"No individual other than me will benefit from it, it is humanity as a whole that benefits. When humanity as a whole gradually gets rid of the bad situation, we as individuals will get better, although this may be hundreds of years later.

That's the problem. But the fact is, when you save everyone, you yourself will be saved."

"But it cannot be ruled out that our salvation is far later than everyone else's salvation." She said, "That is when we take up arms to protect ourselves."

"Will that day come, Mom?"

"There will be a day." Her voice was frighteningly sure: "Unless - unless all of us will perish before we are saved."

"But remember, kid. No matter what, humans love each other."

"Child, do you love them?"

"like."

She completely handed over the badge to her young daughter.

======Rose 2·2105

There was a loud "boom" sound.

The heavy object fell to the ground, and the world was spinning. Her mother tapped the object on the back of her neck, and she fell heavily to the ground.

Then there was a "bang" sound, which was the sound of the bedroom door being closed.

"Click", the door is locked.

She should have fainted, but at the last second before she fainted, a shining golden object slipped from the pocket of her coat. The color brought back her last bit of consciousness. Her ears were buzzing, like the roar of an airplane, and her head was being crushed.

Amid the severe pain, and the numbness that was like losing her limbs, she stretched out her hand, tightly grasped the golden rose badge, and gasped for air.

She will not let herself faint. She has a gentle temper but a strong will, which is far better than ordinary people. This is also recognized by her mother.

And her mother is such an outstanding and outstanding woman. Aunt Lin Shan said that your mother showed extraordinary leadership talents when she was still a young girl. She was even the one who saved mankind from danger.

The initiator of the Rose Declaration and one of the drafters of fertility laws. Now, when women are being oppressed more and more, exceeding the upper limit originally agreed upon, she and her companions have taken up the

Weapons to safeguard due freedom and dignity.

It seemed like a long time passed. Half an hour, an hour, or two hours. Through the bedroom door, she heard a rough knocking sound coming from the entrance not far away. Then there was the regular tapping sound of high heels. It was her mother Lu

Madam, everyone knows that Madam Lu has been self-controlled and elegant throughout her life. During her non-childbearing period, she always wears a long crimson skirt with a waist and decent black high heels. Her graceful manners do not change with age.

The door opened and the guests came in. Their footsteps were heavy, the sound of the soles of military boots colliding with the ground. She felt dangerous, but this kind of thing happened often recently.

Next came Xu Xu's voice, which seemed to be lowered on purpose. She vaguely heard some words such as "change", "stop" and "concentrate". In the past three months, her mother had spoken frequently to some people, although she deliberately avoided them.

daughter, but so were those keywords she overheard.

She probably knew what was going on. For six months, "roses" slogans against endless oppression could be seen everywhere, and the base tried to reach reconciliation with them.

"I don't agree," her mother said, raising her voice.

"I'm afraid you need to come with us."

"We have traveled with you many times."

"This time is different, ma'am."

"Is there anyone else?"

"You are the only one, madam. The marshal wants to negotiate with you personally. You can also choose to bring others with you."

"I request Lieutenant General Lin Shan and her guards to accompany them."

"Of course, ma'am," the officer said after being silent for a while.

The officer appeared to place a call while her mother walked to the filing cabinet next to the bedroom door.

The officer hung up the communication.

After a long time, Mrs. Lu said: "I will prepare some materials. I will leave when Lieutenant General Lin Shan arrives."

The sound of the filing cabinet opening sounded, and everyone in the living room was silent.

It took so long that she almost lost consciousness.

But she was still thinking about why her mother knocked her unconscious.

Why?

Why?

because……

because--

She thought like that until she was about to lose consciousness.

Until a gunshot rang out.

She was trembling all over, her hands were covered in cold sweat, and the golden badge slipped from her palms. The next moment it would hit the ground with a crisp sound.

And her shaky faith will be the same as this badge.

During this time that was difficult to measure, she closed her fingers with difficulty, clenched the badge firmly into her palm, and placed her fist on her chest.

For a long time, blood slowly trickled out through the crack in the door, like an octopus's tentacles.

She moved her eyes away from there and looked calmly at the warmly furnished room. She didn't know whether the look in her eyes was sadness, hatred, pity, or nothing at all.

The next moment, she completely lost consciousness.

======Rose Three·2105

She was taken to a place and stayed in several small rooms with some girls of similar age. Food and water were brought to her every day. She knew that a lot of things were happening outside, which lasted for at least three months, because of this

Life lasted three months.

She has been thinking about why her mother knocked her unconscious early if she didn't know the danger was about to happen, and why she didn't take precautions if she knew the danger was about to happen.

If killing Mrs. Lu could solve the problem, why did the chaos last for three months? If it was predicted that it would cause chaos that would last for three months, why did he choose to kill her.

Sometimes, she suspected that her mother had deliberately killed herself and knocked her daughter unconscious in order to keep her alive.

Mother also said that except for the women who were closely associated with the Declaration, other members of the base were indifferent to the opposition activities. Of course there are ways in the world to make them care, and that is to let them see that the thing that oppresses them is so huge, and that thing

One day it will crush everyone.

Or maybe, she will never know the truth at that time.

No matter what happened, her mother, Mrs. Lu, and Mrs. Lu's companions all failed.

——Because she and her companions were brought to the door of a huge, silver-white hexagonal building, which she could see every day when she opened the curtains. It was called the Garden of Eden.

There was an older strange woman in the hall, holding her hand.

"Son." the lady asked, "do you love humans?"

"No matter what," she said softly, looking into her eyes, "human beings love each other."

——She walked in.

And she knew that many years later, she would also be called Mrs. Lu.

It's as if her mother is still alive.

======Rose Four·Now

This is a dark green monster.

An Zhe knelt down and looked at it.

It was about to die. There were three bowl-sized blood holes in its abdomen, which oozed thick black fluid. Its fine scales and skin composed of raised thorns and bumps undulated weakly. Four of its five eyeballs were compound eyes.

, it was covered with an ominous white veil, the fifth one was tightly closed, and the dozens of fist-sized compound eyes on the back were dim and dull.

It is rare to see a seriously injured and dying monster in the abyss, which means that it has just barely won a fight, and the bloody smell has not had time to be discovered by other predators.

It is not big in size and is as long as a newborn human baby. Of course, this does not mean that it has always been this long when it was alive, because the polymorphic monsters in the abyss can freely transform between many forms. Polly said,

Under the previous theoretical system, this was unbelievable, because some substances disappeared out of thin air, and other substances appeared out of thin air. But if we explain it in terms of fluctuations and frequencies, the switching of forms is just a change in frequency, and it is easy to do.

Now, the reason why it is in this state when it is dying may be that it wants to die in this form. This may be its original form, or it may be its favorite form.

An Zhe gently touched its head with mycelium, but there was no reaction.

"It's almost dead." He frowned slightly and looked at the monster.

Lu Feng beside him only said: "It's raining."

An Zhe raised his head and saw that the sky was covered with dark clouds. With a "pop" sound, raindrops fell on the overlapping branches and leaves of trees and vines, splashing on the ground. The next second, another drop fell on the monster's wound, and it twitched.

For a moment, it seemed to hurt.

The summer rain came so quickly. Just a few seconds later, dense white raindrops started beating on the leaves like drums. Lu Feng covered An Zhe's shoulders and head with his uniform jacket, and An Zhe said: "

When I came here, there seemed to be a cave nearby."

He grabbed Lu Feng's hand and stood up, standing there and hesitating for a few seconds - finally, he picked up the small monster that was trembling with pain, and the two of them walked towards the undulating mountains nearby.

"The shape is not right." Lu Feng said.

An Zhe didn't feel anything at all. There were always strange landforms in the abyss.

The entrance to the cave is right there, a deep opening among the tangled vines.

The monster in his arms was still trembling. Years ago, he dragged the seriously injured Anze back to his cave. At this moment, he knew that the entrance to the cave in front of him was definitely not the same one, but he strangely felt that time and destiny were always there.

Overlapping each other, I walked through the same journey again.

However, when he stood at the entrance of the so-called cave, he finally believed Lu Feng's judgment.

The entrance to the cave is not a common irregular opening, it is vaguely arched - it is an abandoned building, which was squeezed by the raised ground into its current appearance. There are indeed some ruins of human abandoned cities scattered in the abyss, and there are various kinds of things in the ruins.

Buildings with different functions, the creatures of the abyss have grown and spread on them for hundreds of years.

Walking in, the surroundings were dark, with the occasional fluorescence of plants. An Zhe put the monster down and placed the flashlight in a suitable position. The flashlight light illuminated a limited space. It was a wide hall with long-decayed furnishings. It seemed to be a church.

, the walls are mottled, and there are traces of monsters living there, but they seem to have been left a long time ago.

There was a sound of the carapace rubbing against the stone, which was the injured and dying monster moving five centimeters towards them. An Zhe stretched out his hand and touched the down on its feet. The monster's head turned, and there was no expression in the insect's compound eyes.

Pupils like those of mammals made it difficult to identify the focus of sight, but Anzhe knew it was looking at him.

Why was it looking at him? What was it thinking? What kind of emotions would a five-eyed monster have when it was about to die? An Zhe didn't know, but strands of white mycelium climbed up the monster's body and gently covered it

Its deepest wound.

The legs moved, as if they were going to move towards An Zhe, but the next moment, the body stopped moving.

It will die.

An Zhe looked at it without retracting his hyphae. There seemed to be a line of sight beside him. He turned his head and found Lu Feng leaning against the dilapidated pillars in the church hall, with his arms folded and his eyes fixed here, seeming to be observing.

Every move you make.

"Do you often do this?" Lu Feng asked.

"Sometimes." An Zhe replied.

He knew what Lu Feng was asking. If he met an injured creature in the abyss, he would drag it back. Occasionally, a seriously injured creature would survive because it had been recuperated in a safe cave. Most of the time, it would be seriously injured.

die.

The same is true for Anze.

Lu Feng was still looking at him.

"Did you already have human consciousness at that time?"

An Zhe recalled it and shook his head. At that time, he was just a mushroom, and he didn't even know how to use human language to describe the living conditions of a mushroom.

He pursed his lips and continued: "If my hyphae break, it will hurt me and I'm afraid of dying."

"So when I see them dying, I will try to help them."

After a long while, he saw Lu Feng smile: "It's something you can do."

Their coats were soaked by the rain, and the place was extremely dark and humid. Fortunately, they had a few charcoal blocks in their backpacks. They set up a stand, lit a fire, and turned off the flashlight.

"Is it cold?" Lu Feng asked An Zhe.

An Zhe shook his head, but still leaned towards Lu Feng, and Lu Feng put his hand on his shoulder.

They didn't speak anymore. An Zhe leaned on Lu Feng's shoulder and looked at the dancing flames.

"Can I find Anze?" he asked after a long while.

He and Lu Feng agreed to stay in the abyss for one month and at the base for one month.

Lu Feng did not hate the abyss, and An Zhe even felt that the colonel liked the abyss more than the base. The colonel knew many things about the abyss, and he could also collect many samples for the research institute during this month. But no matter how familiar Lu Feng was, the scope

No matter how you shrink it, the abyss is still huge.

"As long as the cave is still there," Lu Feng said.

An Zhe recalled everything about the abyss: "The entrance to the cave might have been covered by mushrooms, it might have been flooded, it might have been collapsed by fighting monsters... Sometimes the cave was alive, it woke up, and then left.

"

He said: "But I still have to look for it."

"This is what I promised Anze."

"Although he doesn't know it."

"Then just think that I promised myself."

An Zhe was talking to himself, but Lu Feng just brushed his hair sometimes. In the end, he said to An Zhe: "He won't be angry because you are late."

An Zhe nodded, An Ze is a very good person.

He put away his random thoughts, continued to look at the flames, and slowly talked about things in the abyss. Lu Feng just listened.

I don’t know how long it took, but An Zhe suddenly thought that all his life as a mushroom had been told to Lu Feng. Lu Feng knew about Rainy Season and Green Grass, Anze and Qiao Xi, knew about all the people he knew, knew

Everything he encountered.

On the contrary, he did not know Lu Feng's past.

"You..." he said, "Have you ever promised others something that you couldn't do?"

An Zhe had already thought about his answer. He imagined that people like Lu Feng would not make promises easily or have unrealistic illusions.

But to his surprise, after a short silence, Lu Feng said: "Yes."

The "pecking" sound of the firewood gradually became smaller, the scorching flame turned into a red light on the dark charcoal, the surrounding area became dim, and the smell of dust came up.

The stairwell on the 22nd floor of Eden Garden is also a dark and dusty place.

"On that day," a gentle female voice sounded in Lu Feng's ears in a daze, "on that day when all of us are free, I will no longer have to secretly meet my children like this."

Gibran was not Mrs. Lu's child, but he often came to the 22nd floor. At this time, he sat on the emergency stair railing with his calves dangling and said, "Madam, you will definitely see that day."

The lady touched his head: "Our great scientist is here."

Gibran raised his head, whistled, and said, "Lu Feng and I will also see that day."

The lady looked away from Gibran and looked at Lu Feng: "Are you going to the lighthouse too?"

Lu Feng shook his head.

"Then you are just like your father," the lady kissed his forehead, "you will protect the base when you grow up."

Then the lady took one of his hands, then one of Gibran's, held them together, and then put her hand on hers.

"We will all see that day. When that day comes -" Her young face showed gentle joy: "When that day comes, we will be together, and your father. You promise me."

"Promise me."

"I promise, madam."

"I promise you too."

Lu Feng's story was very short, but An Zhe looked at him and was fascinated by it.

This time it was Lu Feng who looked at the gradually extinguishing fire.

An Zhe stretched out his hand.

He straightened up and tried to hug Lu Feng just like Lu Feng hugged him just now. The colonel seemed to understand. He adjusted the angle and leaned towards An Zhe. An Zhe put his arms around his shoulders. It was a bit uncomfortable, but he could

.

"You once told me that she turned into a bee because of a rose plant many years ago." Lu Feng said: "I have been wondering who gave it to her."

An Zhe was startled.

One day before the ultrasonic dispersion device was invented or the dispersion device briefly malfunctioned, a bee that strayed into the city was attracted by flowers and stung Mrs. Lu's finger.

The weak frequency of the bee lurked in her body, and would be awakened one day in the future by the grand and unknown fluctuations from the universe.

In this base, only Mrs. Lu has roses, because she loves these things, and there are other people who love her. Lu Feng's father and later Lu Feng will give her seeds collected by the lighthouse and confirmed to be safe——

Only these two people.

An Zhe gently held Lu Feng's hand.

After the firewood pile burned out, the dim red color also receded, and the wind whined and echoed in the church, like another windy night.

"I hope you can go to the United Front Center." Mrs. Lu said.

That was the last phone call Lu Feng had with her before he officially joined the military. At that time, he was at a small field base on the flank of the base, which was a distance that the base's civilian communications could barely reach.

"It's the best place for you. It's the least to go to the wild, so it's also the safest." She said: "After serving the base for so many years, this is the only time I'm selfish. I want you to live, and I want my children to live, but

I only know you."

Lu Feng said nothing.

"If it were anywhere else, I wouldn't stop you, but don't go to the Tribunal, I'm afraid of it." She said softly: "Last year, there was a shooting incident in the Tribunal. Many drastic changes in the base have happened.

It started with a bloodshed. And the Inquisition was filled with rivers of blood every day, and that place was too painful."

"Are you listening?" she asked after a moment of silence.

"I'm here," he replied.

She smiled: "Then you promise me."

"You must agree-"

The rustling sound of electricity suddenly sounded.

"Zi——"

This was followed by a soothing musical prelude, a gentle frequency, and a gentle female voice: "Sorry, due to the influence of solar wind or ionosphere, the base signal has been interrupted. This is a normal situation, please don't panic, all activities continue as usual, communication signals

It will be restored from time to time, and a public broadcast will be sent to you at that time, please keep listening."

“…please stay tuned.”

When all the wood was burned into loose gray-white debris that could easily break into pieces, the church fell into darkness and silence.

At this time, countless faint green lights lit up, indicating that the picked-up insect monster had died.

An Zhe looked over and saw that its body gradually dismembered and dissipated into dots of green fireflies, like green and shiny smoke or a swarm of fireflies.

They enveloped them like a dream at first, then rose up, illuminating the entire dilapidated church, as well as the mottled statue of the Weeping Virgin on the left wall and the huge crucifix in front. Dead vines hung on the Virgin

On her shoulder, her cheek was scratched by the paw prints of beasts, and Jesus' body was covered by mold. The only thing that was clear was their eyes, which were watching the world silently behind the vines, mold and dust.

The light scatters.

Destiny is scattered in the world.

The author has something to say: I have been working on my thesis during this period and have also revised several manuscripts. Mushroom has not started writing yet. I have been waiting for a long time.

This plot is about Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu’s mother (the Mrs. Lu at the beginning). It should have appeared in the main text of the second volume. However, my narrative ability is limited and I cannot tell it in full during the serialization, so I will complete it here.
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