Finally he saw Lu Xun's face. He had never seen such a bewildered look on his face before. He wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything.

Everything was dark in front of his eyes, and his body was a hole.

Gently, something broke inside his body.

It hurt so much.

Then it was the second one.

He tried to understand what happened, and finally, his consciousness seemed to become a point of light in the void, and he finally saw what was happening.

The thin, snow-white one gradually stretched to an almost transparent step, and it fragilely took a thrilling step.

Snap.

With the pain of a needle prick, it broke.

His spores.

The hyphae from his body connected to each hyphae of the spores, and now the hyphae were breaking one by one. It was not him who loosened himself, but the spores took the initiative to leave - no, not that.

It was time to mature, and the power from the instinct of life was pulling them apart.

An Zhe could not stop anything. It was hard to say whether there was any deep affection between a mushroom and its spores. Their relationship was not like that of human parents and children, but he still did not want the spores to leave him so soon. It was still so dangerous outside. If the spores left him, they would die no matter what happened - especially Lu Xun.

But he lost all his senses and could not say anything. He could only speak desperately to the spores in his heart.

Don't come out.

Don't come out.

When there were only three remaining mycelium, the fear of death reached its peak.

Don't come out - please.

He was sweating profusely and suddenly opened his eyes.

In front of him was the ceiling. He blinked slowly, and then shuddered the next moment.

- It's still there.

He could still feel the spores in his body. The three mycelium were shaking and about to fall on it. Fortunately, it looked obedient and stopped, as if it had finally decided to obey his request.

The next moment, he heard the doctor's voice in his ears. He first thought he had returned to the base, and then he realized that it was the voice of the communicator.

After correcting the distorted copper wire, Lu Xun did contact Ji. Although this was wrong, he felt lost at that moment.

"...I am sure to tell you that humanity is finished." The doctor's pessimistic remarks came from the communicator. An Zhe moved and found himself lying in Lu Xun's arms, wearing his coat. Lu Xun saw that he woke up.

He seemed to want to say something, but An Zhe used his eyes to let him concentrate on the call, and then weakly rested his forehead on his chest.

"This is not a disaster that can be predicted at all. This is a mass extinction. I can tell you that it is the extinction of all living things, all non-living things, and all physical laws in the entire world."

Lu Xun: "I saw the fusion of matter."

"It's not called fusion. Our latest definition is distortion, which is the overall distortion at the microscopic level. You know, a silicon atom under a microscope becomes - it becomes something we don't know. This is not genetic pollution at all, it is a change at the quantum level, something we can never observe. According to the uncertainty principle, we can never overcome it, and we can never overcome it. Even if technology advances for another 10,000 years, we can only accept death." The doctor said, "I... I... We currently only know that the magnetic field can protect the earth from this change. After the two bases increased the magnetic field strength, the distortion stopped temporarily. But you know, the situation is always changing. "It's getting worse."

He seemed to be chattering on and on because of his nervousness: "In the past, serious injuries would cause infection, then minor injuries would also cause infection, then any touch would cause infection, and finally no contact would cause infection. I thought this was the worse situation, but what is the result? The basic structure of this world is in chaos, and this is obviously a gradually strengthening process. The world is becoming more and more chaotic. Now our magnetic field can temporarily block it, and then what? What if the highest intensity of the artificial magnetic field can't resist it? The highest intensity of our magnetic field is level 9, and now it is level 7, which is almost over. Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, at the latest half a year, our artificial magnetic poles will be damaged due to distortion."

"Ji hopes you can come back, but in fact, if you want to find a place to spend the rest of your life, I will never stop you." He said, "It's almost over."

Lu Xun said, "I know."

"If you didn't find Anzhe, you don't have to look for him. Let him go, let yourself go, live well, you are going to die anyway." The doctor said, "Even if you bring the sample back, we can't find any results. This is not something science can do - although Ji still wants to fight for the last glimmer of hope."

After a pause, the doctor said, "I collapsed. I'm sorry. I was infected by Ji's current pessimism. Don't listen to a word I say. The sample must be brought back. , since the sample is inert when infected, it may also be inert when distorted. This is the last breakthrough, the last hope, either you die outside, or bring it back. But according to An Zhe's sudden disappearance at the end, he may be a very scary alien species, you have to be careful. "

The doctor's self-destructive tone and the wrong estimate of his strength made An Zhe twitch his lips, but he was aware of the meaning of his words, and he understood that the base was still obsessed with his spores.

"Have a good rest." Lu Xun said: "I have sent the coordinates to the United Front Center."

The communication was disconnected.

Lu Xun looked at An Zhe.

"Are you okay?" he said.

"Fine." An Zhe said.

Lu Xun said, "What happened just now?"

An Zhe shook his head.

"You don't know either?"

An Zhe whispered, "No."

He said, "I can't tell you."

He suddenly found that Lu Xun's eyes were so cold that it frightened him.

"Yeah." Lu Xun's fingers gently smoothed his hair, and his voice was light: "So the sample can't tell me either."

An Zhe lowered his head. He had nothing to say about the spores. It was like this before, and it is still like this now.

In this world, quiet time is a bubble. Like the end of a dream, he and Lu Xun finally went back to a few days ago.

Judge and alien, pursuer and defector. He would not hand over the spores, and Lu Xun would not let him go.

He did not want to look into Lu Xun's eyes, so he could only change the subject: "Is Ki-woo in a bad state now?" "

Yeah."

"Then do you still want to go back?"

"Go back." Lu Xun said.

"But the doctor said... there is no hope." He whispered.

He immediately realized the stupidity of his words. Even if Ki-woo was going to perish, Lu Xun would not be able to not go back.

After a long silence, Lu Xun said: "At least stay with Ki-woo until the end."

An Zhe pursed his lips. Lu Xun belonged to Ki-woo, just like he belonged to the abyss. They could not live with Ki-woo. Lu Xun has already sent the coordinates to the United Front Work Center. He refused to reveal the whereabouts of the spores. He could hardly imagine what he would encounter next.

He looked at Lu Xun. The light was dim in the rain outside. He could not see Lu Xun clearly, nor could he understand Lu Xun.

As the world changes more and more crazy, even the doctor said that "humanity is finished." He didn't know what Lu Xun would think in the last moments before human extinction.

"Sometimes I feel that if the radicals must perish in my lifetime," Lu Xun said in a low voice: "Everything I have done before..."

He stopped and didn't say anything else. The fluctuation of emotions was like a ripple on the water, which soon froze.

"Maybe there will be a miracle." An Zhe could only say this softly. This was the only thing he wanted to say to comfort Lu Xun.

Lu Xun looked down at him: "Do you think it's possible?"

"Yes. Just like... just like this world is very big, but when your plane crashed, it fell next to me." An Zhe said: "If it wasn't like this, you would be dead."

If Lu Xun died, there would be no An Zhe in the human city again at this moment, and everything would change.

But Lu Xun just looked at him. He lay in his arms, and Lu Xun was like that - looking down at him like that, with only a thin chill in those cold green eyes: "Do you know how big the world is?"

An Zhe recalled that in his limited memory, he had not walked many roads, nor had he seen many things. He was just an inert mushroom. But this world must be very big, so Lu Xun's plane falling from the sky and landing in front of him can be called a miracle.

So he nodded slowly.

He wanted to make Lu Xun happy, but Lu Xun was so scary now - looking at Lu Xun's expressionless profile, An Zhe couldn't help but shiver.

"You don't know." Lu Xun said coldly, "I couldn't have happened to fall in front of you. That's why it happened because I came here to catch you."

"No." An Zhe couldn't stand his gaze. He wanted to leave, but Lu Xun held him tightly in his arms. His voice was hoarse, "There were many planes that day. You were going... to kill bees. You accidentally... accidentally met me, so you wanted to catch me."

"I've already killed it." Lu Xun's voice fell silent.

An Zhe's eyes widened.