Lily whispered, "I'm sorry, Madam, I'm just a little worried about Sinan."

"Is there something you can't tell me?" Madam Lu reached out to her, and Lily obediently left Anzhe, who had been held by Madam Lu.

The last time they met at the lighthouse, Madam Lu wore a mask, and Anzhe could only see her eyes, but this time he finally saw the lady's facial features clearly. Her facial features were soft, her eyebrows were curved, but her thin lips were slightly pursed when she was not smiling, adding a firm heroic spirit to this gentle appearance. Lu Xun didn't look like her.

But, inexplicably, Anzhe felt that her facial features were somewhat similar to Lily's. If all the people in the entire base were grown from embryos in the Garden of Eden, and all embryos came from women in the Garden of Eden, then Lily could indeed be the daughter of Mrs. Lu.

In this way, it is understandable that Lily left Mrs. Lu decisively after seeing him and let her hold her - after all, she was his cub, not his cub, and only spores in this world would never leave him on their own initiative.

Anzhe looked at Mrs. Lu, and he didn't know what measures Mrs. Lu would take against him.

Mrs. Lu asked, "Is he your friend? Did you come to the passage to find him?"

Lily looked at Anzhe, and she turned her cunning eyes and said to Mrs. Lu, "He doesn't want to go back, can I invite him to be my guest?"

"We can invite Anzhe to dinner, their food is so disgusting." She said again.

An Zhe understood that the little girl wanted to help him search for the people hiding below, but he didn't think Mrs. Lu would agree. After all, his sudden appearance here was too weird.

But to his surprise, Mrs. Lu actually said, "Okay."

Lily exclaimed, "Wow, Madam, you are so nice today."

Mrs. Lu lowered her head and touched her hair: "I have always loved you."

Lily rubbed her palm affectionately: "I like Madam too."

——An Zhe was taken to the tenth floor of the Garden of Eden. The atmosphere here was peaceful, and the stereo in the corridor played soft music. The snow-white walls were painted with images, all of which were flowers, butterflies, bees, clouds or images of the Virgin Mary. Compared with the outside, this place was like another world.

In the spacious corridors and halls, Anzhe also met other women. They all wore clean white long dresses, with black or chestnut brown hair, and had calm faces. When they saw Mrs. Lu, they nodded to her in a friendly manner.

In the small compartment of the public cafeteria, Anzhe had a ten-layer dinner. It was sugared milk, half a roast chicken, and a bowl of vegetable corn soup.

After dinner, the lady said, "It's time to send your friend away."

Lily said to her coquettishly, "Let him stay for a while."

The lady indulged her request and said, "Then come with me to water the flowers."

So Lily took Anzhe's hand and walked through the snow-white hall to another round room. An Zhe saw the lush red and green in the room at a glance. The center of the room was built into a flowerbed of several square meters, with deep red roses blooming lushly.

"My lover used to bring me some seeds from the wild," Mrs. Lu said to An Zhe, "Later, Lu Xun also did this. I remember you were with him that day."

An Zhe nodded.

"He rarely wants to be close to others." Mrs. Lu picked up the silver kettle on the flower stand.

At this moment, something suddenly flashed in An Zhe's peripheral vision, and he turned his head subconsciously - it was the TV screen in this room. No one pressed the remote control, and it turned on automatically.

"News from the emergency response department." The announcer spoke much faster than usual. At the same time, a half-length photo of An Zhe appeared on the screen. "Urgently arrest the suspect. If there are any witnesses, please provide information about his whereabouts immediately."

An Zhe's body tensed slightly. The peace that lasted for an hour just now seemed to be just an illusion. This world was still full of dangers for him. He looked at Mrs. Lu.

But Mrs. Lu whispered, "Don't be afraid."

Mrs. Lu's behavior always surprised An Zhe. He thought that the lady was a staunch supporter of the basic rules at first, but now it seems that she is not.

An Zhe: "You..."

"I won't help you escape, but I won't hand you over for the time being." Mrs. Lu smiled.

An Zhe asked her, "Why?"

"They always have many reasons to arrest someone." Mrs. Lu looked away from the screen. She lowered her head and watered her rose bushes. The crystal clear water droplets rolled down the edge of the crimson petals, then fell from the green leaves and fell into the soil: "For example, forty years ago, they arrested my mother."

An Zhe didn't know what she wanted to say, but she seemed to want to tell a story. Many people he met wanted to tell him stories, as if everyone had some memories worth remembering in their hearts.

So he didn't say anything, but just listened quietly. The fragrance of roses surrounded them. Lily picked one, peeled the petals from the calyx, held them in her palm, and then threw them into the air. The fluttering petals fell like a rain, sprinkling on her hair and body, and some fell on Mrs. Lu's hair.

"The four basic principles of humanity, 23,310 women passed the following declaration with zero vetoes: I voluntarily dedicate my life to the fate of mankind, accept genetic experiments, accept some form of assisted reproduction, and fight for the continuation of the human race for the rest of my life." Mrs. Lu repeated the "Rose Declaration" that Anzhe had heard from Lily in a very light voice, but her tone was low compared to the little girl's clear and cheerful voice.

"One sentence was deleted from this declaration, a prerequisite," Mrs. Lu said, "On the premise of having basic human rights, accepting genetic experiments and some form of assisted reproduction. In addition, the initiators of the declaration also reached a consensus with the gene that women should manage women."

Her fingers touched the soft edge of the rose: "However, that was nearly ten years ago. At that time, everything seemed to be hopeful. The fate of mankind was in front of us. As long as we could continue, things would get better... If I were one of the 23,000 women at that time, I would agree without hesitation. Everyone is sacrificing, and I am willing to make my best contribution to the benefit of mankind."

"At that time, the technology of in vitro embryo culture was not mature yet, and the child had to stay in the mother's body for at least one month. Gene hoped that for the sake of a larger population, their uterus rest time would not exceed fifteen days." Mrs. Lu looked up at the steel-colored ceiling: "The task of giving birth is too heavy, their entire lives have been destroyed, and their lives are passing away. They hope that Gene can relax their demands, but no one agrees."

"It is natural for women who voluntarily signed the Rose Declaration and all girls born after that to dedicate their lives to this declaration - and we are in great need of population. The lighthouse and the military think so, most people in the main city and the outer city think so, even the women who manage women think so."

Her tone was gentle, and this gentleness seemed to evoke emotional resonance. An Zhe listened quietly, and he saw Lily also sitting quietly on the edge of the flower bed.

"In order to fight for the protection of basic human rights, they launched a protest movement forty years ago. My mother was the initiator of that protest movement. She seemed to be one of the first initiators of the Rose Declaration." Mrs. Lu smiled: "But all the images and text materials have been destroyed. At that time, I was too young to remember many things. I can only remember that one night, the soldiers of the United Front Work Department broke into our house. She locked me in the room, and then there was a gunshot... I saw blood flowing into my room from under the door. Later, I was sent to the Garden of Eden."

"They finally realized that the most effective way was to keep the reproductive resources firmly in their own hands, so they deleted that sentence from the declaration, and a new generation of girls were gathered together and raised by the Garden of Eden. They remembered their responsibilities from an early age and did not receive any additional education. In this way, there is no need to worry about the decline in fertility rates, and no girls will feel the pain of losing their human rights due to continuous childbearing."

She looked at the walls around her, but it was as if she was looking at the entire human race through the walls: "I feel pain for this, But I also know that my pain is only a tiny part. In this place, people die every second. The only way for humans to survive in this era is to turn themselves into a whole creature. People with different responsibilities are different organs of this creature. The lighthouse is the brain, the military is the claws, the people in the outer city are the flesh and blood, the buildings and walls are the skin, and the Garden of Eden is the palace. "

An Zhe looked at her, and she seemed to understand An Zhe's eyes and said, "I have never resented this place."

She leaned over and hugged Lily, and Lily buried her head in her shoulder.

"I'm just always confused about one thing," she said, stroking Lily's hair with her fingers. "We resist monsters and alien species, and resist the contamination of human genes by foreign genes, in order to preserve the will that is unique to humans and avoid being dominated by bestiality... But in order to achieve this goal, everything we do violates the principles of human nature. And the collective we form - everything it does, whether it obtains resources, strengthens itself, or reproduces, can only reflect the nature of animals. Humans actually have no power. There is no difference between humans and monsters outside, but because of the flexibility of the brain, all kinds of behaviors of humans have self-deception. Humans are just one of all ordinary animals. They are born like all life, and will die like all life. "

Mrs. Lu's eyes have a dead look: "Humanity's wisdom is as insignificant as its technology."

She stopped talking and looked up at the ceiling for a long time. Anzhe saw her palm pressing on a dark knob - and then gently turning it.

The metal plate on the ceiling that prevents radiation exploded. This is the top floor of the Garden of Eden. Outside the glass is the boundless skylight. Night is when the solar wind stops temporarily, and the silent twilight and the Milky Way pour down together.

An Zhe said softly, "There will be a day when things get better."

Maybe there will really be a day when judges don't have to kill their compatriots, soldiers don't have to sacrifice in the wild, and the girls in the Garden of Eden will regain their freedom.

"No." Mrs. Lu said, "The time when this world is completely broken is coming soon."

"Lily," she turned to the little girl in her arms and said, "Do you want to fly?"

An Zhe looked at her gentle profile, and after hearing this, a chill suddenly rose behind him.

Lily hugged her neck, and asked in a clear voice, "Can I? Like Si Nan?"

"Yes."

At this moment, An Zhe finally understood Si Nan's intention of letting Lily return to the Garden of Eden.

——Completely contrary to their guess at that time.

Returning to the Garden of Eden was not because the Garden of Eden was safe.