After leaving the dead village, the young men in the group became noticeably quieter. Besides silently praying for the victims in their own way, they also harbored deep doubts about what had happened there. They tried to interpret the seemingly unfathomable experiences with their own perspectives, ultimately drawing many bizarre and unrealistic conclusions.
Comrade Xiao Wang, who is still a minor (the legal age of majority in the human community is 24), believes the bone pile may be a primitive tribal sacrificial ritual. He has seen similar holographic scenes in secondary school teaching materials. According to Teacher Zhihui, different tribal cultures often handle corpses differently. They may cut up fresh remains and pile them into small hills, as they do on the roadside, or dye the bones a decayed black-gray color, as they do in the villages. Therefore, he believes that the bones symbolize people's beliefs, or even something more noble.
The flight attendant, older than Xiao Wang, was more realistic, but she stopped short of recalling Country Z's shameful history on Earth, failing to uncover the darker, crueler truth. She believed it was a massacre left unchecked, and that the current human community would never allow such a scene to happen again. Because "He" now controlled the entire planet, no perpetrator could escape such a level of encirclement and suppression.
Gu Chen's thoughts were closest to the truth, but only close. Unlike the two preceding him, he had experienced the entire "that" process in his youth. He possessed a more complete worldview and a clearer understanding of the development of the human world. Therefore, what he saw was definitely different.
He discovered that the bones in the square were fundamentally different from those in other parts of the village. The skulls of the corpses that were piled together and scorched by the nuclear explosion usually had several large holes in them. It was obvious that their owners had died earlier than other people in the village.
Earlier than "that".
So what did the rest of the village do for work? Where did those who were randomly shot and disposed of on the spot come from? If they knew they would die, why did they arrive in such large numbers? Or, if they didn't know they would die, what brought them here?
He continued thinking along this line of thought and came to the conclusion of "epidemic and the army", and then came to the hypothesis that "the society of the former M country was cruel and indifferent."
Jiang Ling waited for the three followers to ask questions throughout the rest of the trip, but before nightfall, she heard no sound from them, save for the clatter of waterproof boots on the ground. She thought her pretense of excessive maturity and caution had created an unbridgeable generation gap between her and the others, so when they arrived at their next temporary stop, she bucked her usual pattern, as if on a steroid, and gathered everyone around the campfire to share some of the "truth" she knew.
In fact, judging from the data unearthed by those early exploration teams, before "that time", there were already countless small cities that had suffered the same fate as this unknown village. They usually became victims of certain experiments when the news was blocked. The word that appeared most frequently in the data was "GE-03", which was difficult to trace its source in the large settlements on the west coast.
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