======Rose One·2103뎃

"We have no other choice."

"Everything in the world devours humans, and our numbers are decreasing day by day."

"Child," Mrs. Lu took off the golden rose badge from her chest, placed it in her palm, and then slowly closed her fingers so that she could feel the undulating and soft patterns of the rose petals, as if she was touching a real rose.

"Everyone should take up the weapons they can to fight against this era, everyone." Her voice was as gentle as water waves.

"But you get nothing, Mom."

"No individual other than me will benefit from it. The benefit is humanity as a whole. When humanity as a whole gradually gets rid of the bad situation, we as individuals will get better, although this may be a few hundred years later. But the fact is that when you save everyone, you will be saved." "But

it cannot be ruled out that our salvation is much later than the salvation of everyone else." She said, "That is when we take up arms to protect ourselves."

"Will there be that day, Mom?"

"There will be that day." Her voice was so firm that it was frightening: "Unless-unless all of us have not been saved and have perished."

"But remember, child. No matter what, humans love each other."

"Child, do you love them?"

"Yes."

She handed the badge to her young daughter.

======Rose 2105

"Bang" a loud noise.

The heavy object fell to the ground, the world spun, her mother hit her neck with the object, and she fell heavily to the ground.

Then there was a "bang", the sound of the bedroom door being closed.

"Click", the door was locked.

She should have fainted, but in the last second before she fainted, a shining golden object slipped out of her coat pocket. The color brought back her last bit of consciousness. Her ears were buzzing, like the roar of an airplane. In the severe pain as if her head was split open, and in the numbness of her limbs, she stretched out her hand and held the golden rose badge tightly, gasping for breath.

She would not let herself faint. She had a gentle temper, but a strong will, far superior to ordinary people, which was also recognized by her mother.

And her mother is such an outstanding and excellent woman. Aunt Lin Shan said that your mother showed extraordinary leadership talent when she was still a young girl. She was even the initiator of the "Rose Declaration" that saved mankind from danger and one of the drafters of the birth law. Now, when women are oppressed more and more, exceeding the limits agreed upon at the beginning, she and her companions took up the weapons they should take up to maintain their due self-esteem and dignity. It

seemed like a long time. Half an hour, an hour, or two hours. Through the bedroom door, she heard rough knocks coming from the entrance not far away. Then there was the regular sound of high heels tapping on the ground. It was her mother, Madam Lu. Everyone knew that Madam Lu had been self-made and elegant all her life. She always wore a corseted crimson dress and decent black high heels during her non-childbearing period. Her demeanor was beautiful and did not change with her aging.

The door opened and the guests came in. Their footsteps were heavy, the sound of the soles of their military boots hitting the ground. She felt dangerous, but this kind of thing happened frequently recently.

Then there was a chattering voice, which seemed to be intentionally suppressed. She vaguely heard some words such as "change", "stop" and "concentrate". In recent months, her mother had frequent phone calls with some people. Although she deliberately avoided her daughter, the key words she inadvertently heard were also the same.

She probably knew what was going on. For half a day, "rose" signs protesting the endless oppression were everywhere, and the base was trying to reach a reconciliation with them.

"I don't agree." Her mother raised her voice. "

I'm afraid you will need to come with us."

"We have come with you many times before."

"This time is different, ma'am."

"Are there others?"

"Only you, ma'am. The marshal wants to negotiate with you in person, or you can choose to bring others."

"I ask Lieutenant General Lin Shan and her guard to accompany you."

"Of course, ma'am," the officer said after a moment of silence.

The officer seemed to dial a communication, and her mother walked to the file cabinet next to the bedroom door.

The officer hung up the phone.

After a while, Mrs. Lu said, "I'll prepare the materials. I'll leave when Lieutenant General Lin Shan arrives."

The sound of the file cabinet opening rang out, and everyone in the living room was silent.

Soon, she almost lost consciousness.

But she still wondered why her mother had knocked her unconscious.

Why?

Why?

Because...

Because -

she thought like that until she immediately lost consciousness.

Until a gunshot.

She was shaking all over, her hands were sweating, and the golden badge slipped from her palm. The next moment, it would hit the ground with a crisp sound.

And her shaky belief would be the same as this badge.

In this time that was difficult to measure with a ruler, she struggled to retract her fingers, tightly grasped the badge in her palm again, and placed her fist on her chest.

At last, blood slowly flowed out through the crack of the door, like the tentacle of an octopus.

She looked away from there, calmly looking at the warmly decorated room, her eyes were filled with sadness, hatred, pity, or nothing.

The next moment, she was completely unconscious.

======Rose 2105

She was taken to a place, staying in a few small rooms with some girls of similar age, and someone brought her food and water every day. She knew that there were many things happening outside, and it would last at least a month, because this kind of life lasted for a month. She

kept wondering, if her mother didn't know that danger was about to happen, why would she knock her out early, and if she knew that danger was about to happen, why didn't she take precautions early.

If shooting Mrs. Lu could solve the problem, why did the chaos last for more than a month? If they knew that it would cause chaos that would last for more than a month, why did they choose to kill her?

Sometimes, she guessed that her mother deliberately let herself be killed. And knocking her daughter unconscious was to keep her alive.

Her mother also said that except for the women who were closely related to the Declaration, other members of the base were indifferent to the opposition activities. Of course, there is a way for the world to make them care, that is to let them see that the thing that oppresses them is so huge, and that thing will eventually crush everyone's body one day.

Or maybe she will never know the truth at that time.

No matter what happened, her mother, Mrs. Lu, and Mrs. Lu's companions were defeated.

——Because she and her companions were brought to the door of a huge, silver-white hexagonal building, which she could see every day when she opened the curtains. It was called the Garden of Eden.

In the hall was a long, strange woman who took her hand.

"Child," the lady asked, "Do you love humans?"

"No matter what," she looked into her eyes and said softly, "Humans love each other."

——She walked in.

And she knew that in a few days, she would also be called Mrs. Lu.

It was as if her mother was still alive.

======Rose Four·Present

This is a dark green monster.

Anzhe squatted down to check.

It was dying, with a blood hole the size of a bowl on its abdomen, from which a thick black liquid flowed out. Its skin, which was made up of fine scales, raised thorns and bumps, was undulating faintly. Four of its five eyeballs were compound eyes, with an ominous white film covering them, and the fifth was tightly closed. The dozen or so fist-sized compound eyes on its back were dim.

It was rare to see a monster that was seriously injured and dying in the abyss, which meant that it had just barely won a fight, and its bloody breath had not yet been discovered by its captor.

돗 is not big, about the length of a newborn human baby, but of course this does not mean that 돗 has always lived this long, because the polymorphic monsters in the abyss can switch between many forms. Polly said that in the previous theoretical system, this was incredible, because some matter disappeared with the void, and some other matter appeared with the void, but if it is explained by waves and frequencies, the switching of forms is just a change of frequency, which is easy to do. For

example, the reason why 돗 is in this state when he is dying may be that 돗 wants to die in this form. This may be 돗's original form, or it may be 돗's favorite form.

An Zhe touched the monster's head lightly with the hyphae, but there was no reaction.

"You're going to die." He frowned slightly and looked at the monster.

Lu Xun beside him only said one sentence: "Rain."

An Zhe raised his head, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and with a "click", raindrops fell between the branches and leaves of the trees and vines, splashing on the ground. The next second, another drop fell on the monster's wound, and the monster twitched, as if it felt pain.

The summer rain came so quickly, just a few seconds later, dense white raindrops beat on the leaves like drums. Lu Xun covered Anzhe's shoulders and head with his uniform jacket. Anzhe said, "When we came here, there seemed to be a cave nearby."

He grabbed Lu Xun's hand and stood up, hesitating for a few seconds - finally, he picked up the small monster that was trembling in pain, and the two walked towards the undulating mountain nearby.