The first person to notice that the garbage disposal had stopped was actually a little boy at the base.
The little boy was separated from his family during the riots, but was picked up by a kind-hearted person and brought to the base together.
The child didn't understand words like garbage discharge and atmospheric combustion. He only knew that whenever black rain fell, the base would order everyone to stay indoors, so the little boy had no way to run out to find his parents.
Therefore, his favorite thing to do every day was to lie by the window and anxiously wait for the "black rain" to stop.
Unexpectedly, this day came so suddenly.
At first when the little boy said the rain had stopped, no one believed him.
In their view, just one hour without dust falling does not mean anything.
After all, it didn't snow much on the seventh day, but on the eighth day, it snowed all day long outside. Several centimeters of gray snow piled up at the entrance of the base. Except for a small number of people with special tasks, almost everyone else hid underground.
It was not until more than an hour later that Qianyue was calculating the rate of material consumption and was surprised to find that the rate at which her spirit value decreased seemed to have slowed down. Only then did she realize that it seemed that it had not snowed outside for a long time.
"What happened? The garbage truck broke down?" Qian Chi said half-jokingly.
However, the spaceship was transporting the garbage, so the probability of an accident was negligible. But the cessation of dust falling from the sky could only be related to the disappearance of the spaceship.
Qianyue looked out the window and pondered for a moment, then suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I guess the weather outside has changed."
This "outside" refers to outside the earth, but among the people present, no one except Qian Chi could understand.
There were probably more or less patient zeros carrying pathogens in those starships that were evacuated from the Earth. So many days have passed, and it's probably not peaceful outside.
On the tenth day of the game, it started raining.
A real rain.
The heavy dust turned to mud under the impact of the rain, and then gathered into streams that washed over the earth. The people, who had been suppressed for a long time, rushed out of the base, laughing and playing in the rain, welcoming the baptism.
The brother and sister stood upstairs and watched all this, and they felt as if they were in another world.
Qian Chi belatedly felt like chatting and asked, "Speaking of which, sister, why did you come? I was so scared when I heard the announcement."
He almost fell off the wall.
Qianyue asked back: "Didn't you ask me to save you?"
If it weren't for this, she would probably still be quietly nestling in a corner.
Qian Chi was stunned and quickly waved his hands: "I didn't say that!"
Qianyue:?
Are you trying to get rid of your debt after taking advantage of it?
Qian Chi saw that his elder sister's face was not right, and he quickly explained: "I'm serious. I originally planned to come here to see if there was any market, but I was tricked into coming here."
"Those people wanted to steal my backpack, so I lied and said I had nothing in it and that everything was with someone else. They asked me to broadcast to find someone."
He said helplessly, "I deliberately said such a long list and called myself brother, wasn't it just to make you realize that something is wrong and not come to this base."
Who would have known that Yu Chengyi, who actually brought the goods, did not come, but instead recruited Qianyue, who originally did not want to come.
Qianyue: ...
So after all this time, she was just being too sentimental?
No wonder she was still wondering what the setting of "got separated at the interstellar port two days ago" meant. After all, it turned out that the other party was reminding another person, but just used her name.
When she thought of this, Qianyue suddenly remembered another thing——
"Wait, if you didn't tell me, I would have suddenly forgotten."
Qianyue sneered, crossing her arms across her chest, "Have you become more capable? You actually dare to call yourself my brother?"
Qian Chi was stunned for a moment, his eyes darting around, "Ahem... that was just to deliberately provoke you and stop you from coming."
Qianyue looked at him with a half-smile, her fingers pressing against the ground, making a crackling sound. "Do you think I would believe such a reason?"
“…” Qian Chi was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat, and insisted that he just wanted to persuade her to leave.
"Why should I believe this or not... You are my sister, don't I know you well?"
He blinked and analyzed with forced calmness: "Look, aren't you very angry now? If you are angry, you definitely won't want to come to me, right?"
"This is called reverse provocation!"
"Besides, you know how well-behaved I am. If you say east, I will never go west. Where else can I find such an obedient brother..."
Qian Chi tried hard to talk a lot, trying to get over the matter, but he didn't know that his clumsy trick had already been exposed by the barrage of comments.
"Buye-chan~: What bad intentions could that little dog brother have? He just wants to satisfy his craving for food."
"Shui Yan: What bad intentions could that little dog brother have? He just wants to beat everyone up."
"Wife Gojo Satoru: My little brother... I wonder what he'd feel after releasing a game and realizing his career hasn't even taken off yet, but the internet is flooded with older sister and mom fans. Haha.jpg"
"Love Mania: I think before that, he might have to worry about the fact that his emojis have gone viral~"
…
Considering that Qian Chi had put so much effort into making amends, Qian Yue didn't make things difficult for him in the end.
In fact, Qianyue wasn't actually angry at first, she just thought it was funny and deliberately put on a stern face to scare him. As expected, the other party fell for it foolishly, and she was left alone in anxiety for a long time.
Qianyue: "Alright, alright, that's enough. Just one more performance and it'll be over."
Qian Chi was suddenly speechless: "..."
Just at this moment, someone suddenly called Qianyue. She happily took out the last two neuroleptics in her bag and gave one bottle to her silly brother, then turned around.
Qianyue asked, "What's wrong?"
The visitors were some of the more influential indigenous people in the base. When they saw the people playing in the rain downstairs through the window, they couldn't help but frown.
"I heard that you let them out?"
Qianyue responded and asked again, "What's wrong?"
Perhaps it was because her attitude was too natural that this group of people were a little confused.
One of them thought for a moment and said tactfully, "While the rain isn't a problem, the radiation in the air is still there. Isn't it a bad idea to let them out like this?"
Their medical supplies were almost exhausted, and if anything went wrong at this critical juncture, they wouldn't be able to save more people.
Unexpectedly, Qianyue waved her hand.
"It's okay, don't worry."
Her tone was unusually relaxed. "Don't worry about the rain. You can go inform the others now. Reinforcements will be here soon."
The other person's first reaction was to suspect that there was something wrong with his ears, "...Are you kidding me?"
Qianyue: "I never joke about this kind of thing."
Now even Qian Chi nodded, "This is true."
It is now the tenth day of the dungeon. No one knows what this means better than the players. The rain right now is the best sign that the hard work will pay off.
However, the natives are not players, nor do they know about the law of eleven days, but they actually live in this world.
The rain outside was hitting the window, just like their anxious hearts at the moment.
“…”
Several natives looked at each other, helpless and speechless, not knowing how to respond for a moment.
They all thought Qianyue was joking before, but they didn’t expect that the other party really believed that reinforcements would be sent from outside, even Qianchi believed it.
But the earth has been abandoned, how can those people come back to save them?
The air was filled with the smell of damp rain, mixed with the smell of dust, which was very much like the depression fermenting in the heart.
Seeing that they could not convince each other, the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
However, as if to verify Qianyue's statement, at this moment, a notice suddenly came from the technical department, saying that they had successfully used tools to catch a satellite signal and intercepted a radio message from outside the earth.
To be precise, it should be that someone outside the earth used more advanced equipment to actively send signals, and even if they did not have access to satellite signals, they could still receive them.
But at this time, who would still remember them on Earth?
Did a passing interstellar pirate accidentally jump to the frequency?
Several natives were stunned when they heard the news. They kept saying that it was absolutely impossible and that no one would care about their life or death. However, they couldn't help feeling uneasy in their hearts, feeling both afraid and expectant.
The more I look forward to it, the more afraid I am.
At this moment, the Qian family siblings both curled up the corners of their lips at the same time.
Qianyue thought silently in her heart: You came at the right time.
“Sizzle——”
The broadcast on the rooftop suddenly made a sudden electric sound. Everyone in the building subconsciously held their breath, and the crowd playing in the rain also looked up at the loudspeaker in confusion.
Then a steady and solemn voice sounded above the prison:
"This is the Federation Volunteer Army, fellow survivors of Earth... Zizi... Don't panic, the old forces have been overthrown, and the garbage regulations have been abolished... Zizi..."
"We solemnly swear here that Earth is humanity's home planet, and you have never been abandoned... Please hold on a little longer, survivors. Help will arrive soon."
"I repeat, this is the Federal Volunteer Army..."
…
At the same time, the same broadcast content was heard one after another in every corner of the earth.
In the field, someone was startled suddenly, and a handful of Guanyin soil that he had almost swallowed slipped out from between his fingers, and he began to vomit with a wow sound.
Under the trees, some people thought they were hallucinating because of the radiation, but the next second they were suddenly awakened by the repetitive broadcast;
In the basement, someone dropped the knife they were wielding with a clang, and they collapsed into each other's arms. They had nearly ended each other's lives by a hair's breadth.
There were even people buried under the rubble, dying, who suddenly opened their eyes at this moment, gritted their teeth, endured the pain, broke through the obstacles and drilled out of the ground!
On the mountains, in the wilderness...
No one knew what those people had done, but more and more base stations began to restore their signals. The news spread further and further, and more and more people emerged from the darkness, shoulder to shoulder.
It was like a beam of light suddenly breaking through the dark clouds and illuminating the earth. Countless tiny creatures were trembling and resonating under the light at this moment.
The dangers posed by the previous garbage burning have not decreased, but the faith in people's hearts has transformed into an invisible but hard armor, supporting them to move forward towards the light in the darkness.
Many people in the Longhai base spontaneously formed a search and rescue team, driving Qianyue's tattered ambulance and wearing the few protective suits they had to go out for rescue.
Heavy rain fell continuously, but it could not extinguish the fire of hope in people's hearts. Instead, it was like the weeds nourished by the spring rain, with the roots under the soil growing wildly and tightly entwined.
Soon, night fell.
The broadcast is still circulating, but the countdown to the end of the copy is getting shorter and shorter.
Finally, at dawn, amidst the drizzle, starships sailed in from the horizon, draped in the breaking light of dawn. Although the clear sky was gone, the water droplets in the air reflected the neon light from the mechas.
In the last minute before the end of the copy, Qianyue and countless others raised their heads and looked up. They heard sobs and cheers in their ears, and even vaguely seemed to hear the surging waves and the collapsing mountains.
At that moment, she suddenly remembered a sentence.
"To share this glory and love with you"
“The Earth has survived four billion years.”
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