The memory of human beings when they are traumatized turns out to be all fragments.
Han Suiping didn't know how long he had lost consciousness. Before he opened his eyes, he felt the electromagnetic pulse waves roaring wildly between the sky and the earth. He was like a thin leaf being thrown into several storms. In the turbulent flow, he was torn and pulled by forces from all directions, vowing to smash his consciousness into pieces. Before he even knew it, he curled up and whimpered in his throat. Moaned.
... Nothing is left, nothing. The place that carried his growth, relatives, and memories has since become a burning and vaporized ruin. His parents, those two pairs of eyes that have looked at him countless times, they The hands that hugged him, hit him, and soothed him...their flesh and blood have now turned into radiation dust, blown up by the hot wind and blown out of the pit.
That claw... If you don't put it away, you will die here.
It seemed like a lifetime passed before he understood the meaning of this thought. Another lifetime passed before he finally restored his right arm to its original shape. The electromagnetic pulse wave immediately disappeared like an ebbing tide, but it still sank under the dark sea level. Watch him with eager eyes.
He opened his eyes and saw darkness in front of him. He couldn't raise his head or get up. A large part of his body seemed to have disappeared and was swept away, but he was still alive, floating as a trace of consciousness in the endless black abyss.
"I...where am I?" He opened his mouth and said, but no sound came out. Why is there no light?
No one answered him - in the darkness, the surrounding voices were so noisy and shrill that it was alarming. The ear-piercing siren echoed in the air, almost sternly urging to "repair the hull as soon as possible"; the floor was shaken by people's hurried footsteps, Mixed with someone's cry "Sister!"; waves of scorching seawater hit him, as if they were going to boil him alive.
After a while, Han Suiping realized that these sounds were not what he heard. His brain directly felt the sound wave signals, but there was dead silence in his ears.
"Her life can be saved," someone yelled through the other noises, and he didn't know who he was yelling at: "I will be responsible next, you hurry up and deal with the spacecraft!"
Someone hurried past him. Han Suiping wanted to open his mouth to ask for help, begging him to stop and take a look at himself, but no sound came out. He was floating alone in the black abyss, as if he was slipping deeper and deeper. The further away you go, the more chance you will have of being pulled into the human world.
The man running past him suddenly paused. Han Suiping felt that he seemed to hesitate for a few seconds, and then Ji Shanqing's somewhat nasal voice finally rang out: "There is another one here. "
Hope suddenly rose in him, and he could even breathe. After a while, Han Suiping felt someone squatting down next to him.
"Han Suiping?" It was Siba'an's voice, comforting him in a low voice: "It doesn't matter, your eyes are probably only temporarily blind... I will treat your injuries now."
What happened? Han Suiping opened his mouth and asked silently. He knew clearly what happened, but he hoped someone could tell him a different version of the story.
"Nuclear bomb," Siba'an said almost calmly, "The moment we entered Exodus, we were hit by the air explosion shock wave. Ji Shanqing came back in time, and we... were not all killed."
If not all died, then who died?
"Don't move yet," Siba'an held his shoulders and did not answer the question. "Your injuries are serious."
Han Suiping lowered his head and passed out again. He should not have been in coma for long. When he woke up, Siba'an seemed to be no longer around, but the alarm was still circling. Although the spacecraft was seriously damaged, he could still feel The ground shook slightly, and the hum of engines sounded in his ears - could he hear it? Exodus was in flight?
Han Suiping fumbled around and struggled to crawl out of a bed. His eyesight had not yet recovered, and most of his body had turned into dead flesh. When he crawled, he fell to the ground. He could even feel that he was crawling as he crawled. , a long, warm and wet trail with a bloody smell was dragged out from under his body.
But no matter how painful it was, he had to go, he must go... After looking up and listening for a while, Han Suiping moved little by little towards a certain direction in the darkness.
As soon as his arms turned into limbs and claws, chaotic electromagnetic pulse waves pierced his brain like thousands of steel needles, making his teeth chatter. Fortunately, the spacecraft was rushing high into the sky at extremely high speeds, rushing out of the ground. The aftermath range of the nuclear bomb explosion above; at this height, he would be much less affected, and of course, the signals he could feel would be much less - if not with the help of external force.
Panting, he dragged his almost uncontrollable claws over and put it on a flat plate. The signal suddenly flowed into his consciousness, and he breathed out slightly - he had found the right place, this was indeed the place. Fortunately, the spacecraft's communication system and antenna are still intact and can still capture signals on the ground.
Even if he died of excessive blood loss next moment, Han Suiping had to crawl over.
Because he didn't understand what happened.
Yes, Sibaan said that a nuclear bomb exploded; what he didn't understand was why a nuclear bomb appeared.
When Lin Sanjiu said that she wanted to restore the balance of the world, Han Suiping almost shed tears. He secretly made a decision at that time - he would not leave. He wanted to grow up with his own world and witness her Brand-new changes; in fact, there are many things that can be done. He can't wait to deliver messages to her, design drawings, and spread the network... He looks forward to staying up all night for her future.
Now, all those exciting, shining, and swelling things have dimmed and turned into dust in his chest.
He always felt that he was not stupid, but he couldn't figure out why there was a nuclear bomb no matter how hard he tried.
"Because I think you might kill ordinary people. In order to prevent you from killing ordinary people, I will kill you and ordinary people first."
Or "I want to protect this world, and if you don't let me protect it, I will blow up the world"?
There was no logic he could think of that could explain that nuclear bomb. Han Suiping felt that the answer might be on the ground; even if he died in front of the spacecraft's communication system, he would still have to crawl over and search for every signal on the ground.
Neither Ji Shanqing nor Siba'an knew where they had gone. He was lying alone on the ground, trapped in the darkness, his consciousness swept to the earth along with countless passers-by between heaven and earth. The place where the city used to be has turned into a A huge turbulence of electromagnetic pulse waves appeared; he had to carefully avoid the ruins that were originally his hometown and search farther away.
He was like a stumbling ghost, countless fragments of information passed through his mind, like an endless ocean current; he didn't even know what he was looking for, and couldn't even reach the needle in the haystack - until he accidentally bumped into There was a conversation between father and son. The two were probably talking face to face. Maybe there was some receiver in the room that could pick up sound waves, and he happened to hear it.
The field of vision was dark, and only the voice fell into my consciousness. The slightly younger male voice was still a little trembling when he first spoke.
"More than 10 million people..." the son said twice and took a breath. "They are all dead."
The sound of tea cup and cup lid clinking.
"Well, there are quite a few casualties." Father said in a deep voice, "It's too big of a fuss and we must make an immediate decision."
"But - so many people died," the son's raised voice lowered again, "people will not forget it... this incident will be recorded in history..."
The sound of taking a sip of tea.
"Be more mature," my father said slowly. "What are you afraid of? We are still here, and in less than ten years, they will defend the nuclear bomb themselves."
Han Suiping was shocked. He suddenly failed to catch the signal and let the conversation he didn't know who was having disappear from his mind. He became anxious and was about to find it again when he heard Ji Shanqing's voice suddenly ringing around him. Voice: "...what are you doing?"
He was so focused just now that he didn't notice the other person's footsteps coming towards him.
"There can't be one more person who dies. Come back with me." Ji Shanqing reached out to help him up with some anxiety, and said to himself: "I don't know what will happen to my sister after she wakes up... …”
Han Suiping felt that he had put him on his shoulders. Because his legs could not walk at all, Ji Shanqing had to grit his teeth and drag him back little by little - Lin Sanjiu, the younger brother, did not seem to be good at strength. .
Han Suiping let him drag him for a while in silence.
"...why?" His vocal cords seemed to be damaged, and only the air was spit out to form these three words. He was actually asking himself, asking the father and son who could never answer him, asking what he had left behind The hand with the nuclear bomb... Unexpectedly, Ji Shanqing spoke.
"If you're referring to the nuclear bomb, you're asking the wrong question."
"...Wrong question?" he asked hoarsely.
"There is no room for this question at all." Ji Shanqing's tone was very light and transparent, as if he was evaluating a star in the distant sky. "The reason why you ask this question is because of your perspective on the problem. It’s just wrong. If you follow this angle, you will never find the answer and you will always be confused.”
Han Suiping didn't understand what he meant.
"Take the matter of evolutionaries as an example. If the goal is to prevent people's lives from being affected by evolutionaries, then you can say that they have failed because surveillance cannot play a restrictive role."
Ji Shanqing has only been in this world for half a morning, but he seems to have figured out everything that needs to be clarified. "However, if the goal is to suppress the force outside the system and use it for their own purposes, then they It was obviously very successful.”
Han Suiping shivered slightly; perhaps he had lost too much blood and was getting colder and colder.
"Take nuclear bombs as an example. If the goal is to protect the world, it can be said to be a failure or even unreasonable. If both parties are unwilling to harm the world, then there are ten million peaceful ways to make changes, such as removing only accountability decisions. People, retain the current structure and actual implementation personnel at the grassroots level, and then decide to modify the framework...If you ask why from the perspective of protecting the world, you will not have an answer until the day you die of old age."
Ji Shanqing took a breath. "But if the goal is to protect yourself, then using nuclear bombs is very reasonable and successful." When he said this, he sneered slightly, "Or in other words, when meeting any other group of people,
Evolutionaries will all be very successful...it's a pity that they met me."
When he said this, he called out: "Sales! Has the suspension cabin been repaired?"
Han Suiping didn't know what the suspension cabin was and couldn't see anything. He could only feel that after a moment, Ji Shanqing helped him into a moving seat. He was taken back to the medical room and lay on a hospital bed again.
, Ji Shanqing left in a hurry - seemingly to see Lin Sanjiu.
He was lying alone on the hospital bed, shaking uncontrollably. He kept thinking of Ji Shanqing's almost careless words, and a nightmare-like thought arose, and he couldn't get rid of it.
His eyesight gradually recovered, and the scenery once again revealed blurry colors and outlines. Han Suiping opened his eyes hard, and his vision became clearer and clearer. Only then did he see that there was also a hospital bed opposite him, and there was a person lying on the bed.
Deng Yilan was lying there looking at him, her eyes were gray and dull. Her hand reached out of the hospital bed, as if waiting for someone to hold it and give her a little warmth. She looked almost peaceful and calm; although
Her fierce and joyful shouting not long ago, which seemed to burn even herself, still echoed in her ears along with the sound of rain.
Han Suiping stretched out his hand tremblingly, wanting to touch her eyes, but he couldn't touch her. He slowly held the cold hand instead.
"Is part of the reason because of me?" He looked at Deng Yilan, his vision blurred again. "Ji Shanqing didn't say it clearly... but I guessed it. It was me, I was the one who broadcast everything to the public...
Nothing can be hidden in this city, so there was a nuclear explosion...to bury the evolvers and this city together."
He curled up and held her hand tightly.
"Did I kill you, my parents, and the people of this city?"