Han Kongwen came earlier, so the whole cemetery was still empty.
But at some point, someone had placed a bouquet of flowers and a bottle of wine in front of the huge unnamed monument in the center of the National Cemetery.
Han Kongwen glanced at the four words on the nameless monument, his eyes flickered, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Not long after, 66 people attending the funeral arrived one after another.
Han Kongwen also walked away from the nameless monument.
Standing in front of a new tomb and looking at the name on the tombstone, Han Kongwen had mixed feelings.
For a moment I didn't know how to describe my mood at the moment.
Until someone came closer and said: "His departure... seems to be telling us... that our era is coming to an end..."
Hearing the sound, Han Kongwen raised his head and looked to his side.
It's Chen Enzhi.
She was much stronger than Han Kongwen imagined, at least she didn't shed tears at this time.
Han Kongwen said nothing, facing the wind and staring blankly into the distance for a long time until a silver battleship descended from the sky.
Lin Yan is here.
While the coffin containing Li Boan's body was being buried, Han Kongwen and Lin Yan walked away.
It seems that for them, instead of staying here and being disturbed by sad emotions, it is better to get out early and go to the people they really want to remember and talk about the past.
When he returned to the nameless monument, Han Kongwen discovered that there was another bouquet of flowers in front of the monument.
I looked around in surprise, but I couldn't see anyone who had been there.
Lin Yan also noticed these bouquets and couldn't help but asked with a smile: "Do you think... Asen and the others... have found the 'way back home'?"
Han Kongwen was shocked when he heard this and looked at Lin Yan in astonishment.
Lin Yan didn't care at all. She smiled and said, "It's really a torture to always have people waiting for him."
Han Kongwen calmed down and said softly: "Our original agreement has less than ten years left. If there is no news, I will have to initiate the final plan."
Lin Yan nodded, very calmly.
The two of them stood in front of the nameless monument for a long time. It was not until Li Boan's funeral was over and people came one after another to send flowers to the nameless monument that they walked further away.
Standing on the grass outside the cemetery, Han Kongwen looked up at the sky and said, "Qin Ke and the others are going out on the 13th of next month. Will you come to see them off then?"
Lin Yan: "Yes, but I will not come to Gaia. I will escort them in the Lightless City until they successfully reach the C11 galaxy."
Han Kongwen was a little surprised: "Are you going to take charge of this matter personally?"
Lin Yan looked at Han Kongwen and said, "Then I know that we don't have much time left. If something goes wrong again at this time, will we have another chance?"
Although Han Kongwen understood it, he felt very sad.
"The price of Victory Day is too high...I'm afraid I simply can't afford it," Han Kongwen said.
Hearing this, Lin Yan came over and gently held Han Kongwen's shoulders and said: "Although he is no longer the same person as before, he is still my brother. I know him and I know that he will not let me down.
What's more... we can only believe, not doubt, right?"
You can only believe... you can't doubt...
Han Kongwen savored these words carefully, and then asked: "What if... it gets out of control?"
"Out of control?" Lin Yan frowned.
"Yes..." Han Kongwen said, calling up the identity information of several people.
"All these numerical variables based on the Central Great Descent are breaking away from the inner control of the Central Great Descent, and their power is increasing day by day. It is estimated that it will not be long before some of them may complete their awakening and realize that all of this is actually
It's a lie! At that time... the world will fall apart. I can't synchronize everyone's consciousness with mine, nor can I influence their thoughts, because that is also a disguised failure... So... if I lose control...
It is very likely that all arrangements will be disrupted before everything is ready, and then... it will really be the end of mankind." This was the first time Han Kongwen looked so helpless.
Lin Yan saw it clearly.
These people... are both expected and unexpected...
They have more or less affected the overall pattern of the world...some may seem slight, but in fact they have already had a butterfly effect.
Some seem to keep their promises and work hard to maintain balance, but they secretly fuel extreme ideas.
It seems that no one really thinks about the problem from the perspective of human beings as a whole, to think about the upper limit of the self-support of a civilization's evolution and the catastrophic problems that may explode after the upper limit is exceeded...
"These people are indeed on the verge of losing control, but I think... things may not be as bad as imagined." Lin Yan gave a completely different view after careful consideration.
Han Kongwen asked: "What do you mean?"
Lin Yan smiled softly, pointed at one of the people and said: "Just like him, I remember it was five years ago. Because he saved a friend who shouldn't have been saved in an operation, he killed his companions, and then
You deprived him of many privileges and threw him to the free people to suffer... But in the past few years, he returned to Percival through his own efforts, and even got very close to the people of Firim, and established
He founded an underground organization called "Hongyan". Although the establishment of this organization was somewhat different from your original plan, it also inadvertently formed a layer of buffer and absorbed many social problems. It can be said... he is indeed
It flew away from your hand, but it didn't fly too far, and it's still in the sky you can see."
After hearing this, Han Kongwen
He smiled bitterly and said: "Indeed, I am surprised that he would take this position, but Sister Yan... In order to expand their power, they secretly replaced many people in the big family with sojourners. Looking at the situation,
It is preparing to gradually infiltrate and cannibalize the seven major families from the dark. This unjust act has already caused the death of hundreds of people... If it continues, no one can say how bad things will get. "
Lin Yan said: "In the final analysis, the balance between the seven major families is just a hypocritical performance. What is on the stage will come to an end sooner or later, so it doesn't matter who is left to deal with the seven major families. The key is how to end it."
"The end... Now Xiao Qing is trying to buy me time with the support of the Supreme Council. I don't think I still have the ability to step forward when the time comes to end it."
Lin Yan smiled when she heard this.
Han Kongwen was a little unhappy, probably feeling that Lin Yan was not serious at all today.
Lin Yan saw Han Kongwen's displeasure and explained: "Kongwen, if it was thirty years ago when Cerberus was still secretly controlling the Order, you could have such worries. After all, you
You are not the one who stands at the highest point, but now...you and Xiao Qing are the real power holders! So...what if the arbiter is settled? Could it be that you, Han Kongwen, are still worried about the dissolution of an organization and yourself?
Have their wings been plucked out?"
Han Kongwen was stunned for a moment, then understood.
"What my sister means is^..."
"Shh." Han Kongwen made a silent gesture, then said with a sly smile: "I didn't say anything, I just reminded you that it's time to meet Xiao Qing and the others to enhance our relationship."
Han Kongwen smiled knowingly, nodded and said, "Indeed, I have felt more and more tired since I took over this burden, and it's time to take a rest."
"Yeah." Lin Yan nodded, then sighed softly, looking at the people coming and going in the cemetery and said: "Sometimes, when it comes to evolution and the future, we may be too biased and always feel that there should be more.
Okay, but they ignore the simplest changes in the four seasons, just like travelers traveling northeast and west by boat... They are always looking for places where spring flowers bloom, but they forget that only by staying in one place can you have the whole world, and it all belongs to you.
my world."
Han Kongwen looked at Lin Yan blankly.
Her emotion made people feel a sense of indescribable sadness... It was like a traveler who, while walking, suddenly realized...
Why did you leave? How long did you leave? Where were you going? What were you doing? Along the way...what did you overlook?
"Civilization has its own upper limit, which few people can understand...but in fact it is happening every moment...just like after industrial progress drives people out of factories, they originally thought they would make a lot of money.
The boss suddenly discovered that although the warehouse was full, not a single item could be sold... Because in the final analysis... products are to satisfy people's desires. All of us, whether art or science, serve to serve
Human... Assuming that humans are gone, everything seems to be unnecessary..." Han Kongwen's words quoted the speech of a great orator.
Lin Yan smiled and said, "You also went to listen?"
Han Kongwen smiled slightly: "Well... I still remember that he told a story at the beginning... That story sounded a bit incredible, but it also made people feel shuddering after calming down... What was it? Sister, do you still remember?
"
Lin Yan said: "It is a university professor's last class."
"Well..." Of course it's not that Han Kongwen doesn't remember it, it's just that she wants to forget this story.
~~~~~The following is a restoration of the story~~~~~
I was born in a city with spring all year round, and most people there live very slowly.
How do you understand this slowness?
Let me give you a simple example.
When I wake up in the morning, it's almost 9 o'clock. While most people around the world have already started working, people here have just gotten up, brushed their teeth, and said good morning to the people they live with.
Then people will spend about half an hour eating breakfast and then going to their respective places for work and leisure.
Yes, I was only 19 years old, a freshman in college.
I vaguely remember hearing early that morning that all today’s classes had been cancelled. The reason was unknown and no one gave an explanation.
But when we all arrived in class, we found that the old professor responsible for teaching us modern philosophy had already arrived in the classroom early.
Everyone was very friendly when they saw the old professor, because he was indeed a respectable and lovely person.
He is usually not very well-dressed, and sometimes he is late. Every time he is late, he blushes and apologizes to the students, so everyone feels that he is very close to us, a familiar person who lives around us.
But on this day, the old professor was wearing a Chinese tunic suit.
Her hair was neatly combed and her leather shoes were polished.
Just when everyone came up curiously to ask the old professor what was going on today, the class bell rang.
The old professor said seriously: "Class is over, everyone should go back to their seats."
I'm not usually a person who likes to join in the fun, so I just sat in my seat and didn't move.
Wait until everyone is seated.
The old professor took off his glasses, wiped them, and said to everyone with a smile: "Students, do you want to know why I am dressed so well today?"
When the students heard this, they all said with smiles: "I don't know."
Some students who are usually very lively even said: "Professor, are you going to meet your wife?!"
Everyone laughed when they heard this, and the atmosphere in the teacher was very lively.
The old professor kept looking at everyone with a smile and was not angry.
After a while, he said: "You guessed it right, I want to find my wife."
Already."
The classmates burst into laughter.
I was laughing too, but when I saw a girl with a worried look on her face, I heard the difference in the old professor's words.
So I stopped smiling and raised my hand to ask what happened.
But the old professor ignored me and signaled everyone to be quiet.
After a while, the class became quiet again.
The old professor picked up his pen and wrote four big characters on the crystal blackboard.
"Life-long learning"!
As a talent of the older generation, the old professor still does not use any auxiliary software even in today's high-tech classrooms, but his words are more powerful than the programmed fonts.
After writing these four characters, the old professor turned around and looked at everyone with a smile and said, "Would any of my classmates be willing to get up and tell me what the main courses are in the Business Department of our Hongfei College?"
This question is strange.
Everyone looked at each other, wondering why the professor asked such a boring question.
And I... finally realized the answers to all these questions, but before I could get up, the girl stood up and answered: "Currently, our freshman majors include political economics, "Das Kapital", and Western economics.
Statistics, international economics, business management and macro business theory.”
She finished.
There was silence in the classroom.
No one applauded her, and many people even looked disgusted.
I looked at her with the same admiration as always, and admired her enthusiasm for learning.
The old professor also looked at her, and after a while he nodded in approval and said: "Okay, okay, okay, Xiaoya said it very well. We in the business department have to learn a lot of things, and they are very complicated, but in general, they are all
It's about the economy." After saying that, he motioned for Xiaoya to sit down.
Xiaoya sat down, but the process was very slow. I could see clearly that she was crying, with tears on the back of her hands. But because she was sitting in the first row, no one noticed.
The old professor coughed and repeated what he just said.
"It's all about the economy..."
When the students saw this scene, they couldn't help but started talking quietly.
I couldn't bear it, but I wanted to get up several times, but I didn't have the courage.
After a while, the old professor suddenly asked: "Students, if... one day, our society no longer needs economics, then... what should we do?"
Don’t need economics?
Everyone looked at each other, and the discussion became louder and louder.
I closed my eyes and wanted to escape from all this...
"Hmm? Classmates? Can anyone let go of their imagination and imagine what we should do when economics is no longer needed in this society?"
I received a question again, and the discussion in the classroom became much quieter. A boy stood up and said, "What can we do? Let's go home and farm!"
"Hahahaha!" Everyone laughed when they heard this.
I also laughed, but it was a forced smile.
The old professor also laughed: "That's right! A living person cannot suffocate to death. Even if there is no economics, we can still go back to farming to support ourselves!"
The male student who stood up to answer chuckled, and then said: "But professor, didn't you say that pure assumptions are meaningless, not to mention...our land was taken over by the state when our grandfather was there.
Now if you really ask me to go back to farm, I will be really helpless!"
This statement is both practical and playful.
The classmates all laughed again.
The old professor also laughed, but this time, there were tears in his laughter.
Some attentive classmates appeared and couldn't help but asked with concern: "Professor? What's wrong with you?"
The old professor waved his hand: "It's okay, kids, it's okay, everything will be fine."
Not only was this comfort ineffective, it actually made more people doubt the meaning of today's class.
But the old professor didn't give everyone a chance to speak, so he lowered his voice and said, "Students, I came here today to tell you two things."
My heart skipped a beat, and my uneasiness grew.
"The first thing... what I just said is not a pure hypothesis, but a pattern that has become a fact."
"What?" The boy who just stood up to answer was dumbfounded, and the classroom exploded after a brief period of calm.
"The second thing!" The old professor's voice was raised a lot, and the classroom suddenly became quiet again.
Everyone looked at the old professor on the stage in disbelief. Some people were confused, while others were panicked.
"The second thing... Today, I'm here to say goodbye to everyone. Starting today, all courses in our 'Hongfei' College have been cancelled. Students, you no longer need to work hard, because society is no longer
Economics is no longer needed, at least for a long time...So, I hope everyone can return to their families as soon as possible and enjoy this last good time..."
Before the old professor finished speaking, he was already taken away by armed men who rushed into the classroom.
The students were frightened, and some girls were so frightened that they cried.
Only she and I sat in our seats and waited until we were forcibly taken away...
On the fifth day after the incident, I was picked up by my father.
I thought that such a slow life would last forever... but I didn't expect that the storm came so suddenly... and destroyed everything in one night.
I started to rethink life, and it seemed like I suddenly understood a lot.
But there is still a problem bothering me.
That’s… “Why do we evolve?”
Is it an inevitable result or a paranoid disaster?
I can’t figure it out, and I don’t have time to think about it anymore…