Post-Order Era: Year 1.

That was the twentieth day after the disaster.

There are still two days before Mr. Chen has to go to carry out the mandatory mission.

Everything is developing prosperously.

With Gaia joining the eternal day today, people have to be busy even though there were too many sacrifices during the disaster and too many things to do after the disaster.

It's also a lot easier.

The busy progress of various matters has been much faster.

The "operationalization" of the entire earth allows Everday members to get help wherever they are.

Therefore, there is no need to launch the third round of recruitment for Dawn Academy for the time being. It is enough to deal with the many busy matters at present.

Of course.

After most things are settled.

The third round of recruitment will also be launched sooner or later.

After all, in order to ensure the safety of mankind, the casualty rate of Eternal Day members is indeed high.

The third recruitment is in fact imminent.

However, hastily launching the third round of recruitment now will not only not be helpful, but will also add another busy work task.

Wait until it can be turned on.

This will be a recruitment that is completely different from the previous two times. After all, Eternal Day is now almost semi-public.

Specific courses of action.

We still need to wait for everyone to calm down before conducting further discussions.

As for now.

In the survivor bases around the world, there is only one thing that is most important! That is...

Public memorial!

From the eighteenth day after the disaster, Yong Zhou began broadcasting the countdown to the public memorial service.

On its official website app, the time of the public memorial service, which was to be announced soon, was changed to two days later.

It was not until the twentieth day that the public memorial service officially began.

Survivors all over the world are looking forward to this.

They have been looking forward to this for a long time.

As early as when the respective survivor bases were first established, everyone was assured that the public memorial service would definitely be held.

After all, the disaster lasted only three days, and order remained after that.

It's just for the sake of maintaining order.

After the disaster, the personal freedom and other restrictions on the survivors were so severe that it was impossible to hold a so-called public memorial.

At the same time, the tasks are complicated.

There is no energy to hold a public memorial service.

The most important thing.

The public memorial marks the end of these disasters and the official start of a new era.

The major survivor bases that have already formed a global united front supported by Eternal Day are all waiting for Eternal Day to announce the start.

And that was until two days ago.

The time of the public memorial service was announced on the Yongzhou official website app.

The survivors in each survivor base also discovered that the officials in their respective survivor bases began to make various movements on that day.

This is clearly being prepared.

Preparing for the public memorial service that will begin today.

…

In the survivor base in Linjiang City.

Many survivors stopped working today and stood in silence in the open space outside the city.

Although the base does not require it.

But most of the survivors were already there by now.

Except for some official soldiers who were required to stand guard and patrol, most of them were present.

Not far from the open space.

These are the new platforms and flags that were built in the past two days.

It was obviously prepared for today's public memorial service.

Official personnel responsible for maintaining order were walking around under and on the stage.

It hasn’t officially started yet.

The signal for the start of eternal day has not yet appeared.

Everyone waited in silence.

Lin Miao was also standing in the crowd. Next to her stood Zhou Ziying, her father Lin Yun and other acquaintances who were still in the survivor base in Linjiang City.

She looked up quietly at the three flagpoles on the platform.

One of them is the flag of China.

One is a flag with the symbol of eternal day.

Another flag features feathers surrounding a globe, representing a united global front.

All three flags are now flying at half-mast.

This has been the state it has been in since the platform was built.

Flags at half-mast.

It is an important etiquette to express condolences.

It is usually used to express the grief and condolences of the people across the country when some important person dies or when a major unfortunate event or serious natural disaster occurs.

Feeling the silent atmosphere around me.

Lin Miao thought of a lot at once.

She thought of Uncle Ying Zhongtang, who had left with a serious face and without hesitation. She would never see him again after that farewell.

She thought of Duan Guanghong, who atoned for the dead and sacrificed himself for his ideals, and whose life ended after he rushed towards the snake-haired lion.

She thought of the countless survivors who were in dire straits.

She can survive.

Because too many people gave their lives for her survival.

She who survived.

I have also witnessed too much pain and despair of being powerless in disasters.

All this.

At the moment when the pure white feathers fell.

It was over in an instant.

However, Lin Miao understood that today's public memorial service was the ceremony that would put an end to everything.

otherwise.

Too many people will never recover from that disaster.

Thinking of this, she recalled the process list released by the Survivor Base in Linjiang City.

The piece of paper recorded the entire planning process of the public memorial.

The unified public memorial service will begin when the perpetual daylight signal is seen.

After that, there will be three important procedures: the heads of the major survivor bases give speeches, the survivors observe a moment of silence, and the list of the deceased is read out.

Ordinary survivors do not need to participate in the speeches, and the reading of the names of the deceased has been recorded in advance and serves as the background music for the entire public memorial ceremony.

A collective moment of silence requires everyone to observe three minutes of silence.

As for the so-called eternal daylight signal, it was not clearly stated.

But Lin Miao was not worried about not knowing.

When the signal comes, everyone will be able to see it clearly.

There is no need to worry that Yong Zhou will make any mistakes in this regard.

Overall, the whole process is not complicated.

But everyone felt extremely heavy-hearted.

After all, in this disaster, almost no one was spared from death.

All of them felt deep pain.

The same is true for Lin Miao.

In addition to those who protected her and the sacrifices she witnessed, her mother also passed away.

Lost in a corner.

She was not present and even said that she did not even see the body in the end.

When she first actively participated in the exploration team after the disaster, wasn't it to see her mother before the collective collection of corpses ?

The opposite happened.

She did not meet her mother.

Lin Miao didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

She only knew that she felt a little empty inside.

However, her father Lin Yun saw her mood and reached out to rub her head.

Feeling the warmth on my head.

Lin Miao had one thing to be thankful for.

At least I still have my father, I am lucky.

At least I knew for sure about my mother's death from my father early on.

There are actually many survivors.

They are far away from their relatives in a foreign land, or they have relatives far away in a foreign land.

Because of the post-disaster restrictions.

They can't even find out whether their relatives and friends are alive or dead.

Many of these survivors.

This is what it means to live in a real muddle.

It was not until two days ago when the time of the public memorial was announced that the major survivor bases had large-scale communication and discussions with Yongzhou and many other survivor bases.

A detailed list of casualties.

It finally reached the hands of some people who didn't know whether their relatives were alive or dead.

At that moment, some were happy and some were sad.

But the vast majority are worried.

Some are worried that their expectations will ultimately be dashed and they will never see that person again.

Some are worried that they still don’t know the situation of their relatives.

After all, there are still many, many bodies whose identities cannot be identified.

Until today.

The survivors, who had been tossing and turning in their minds for who knows how long, all gathered here tacitly.

I remembered that person at the public memorial ceremony.

They express their own emotions.

Countless people are waiting silently and quietly.

Suddenly, feathers fell from the sky.

The feathers were pure white, just like a sudden heavy snowfall.

Falling at a slow speed.

All the survivors' eyes lit up.

No one is unfamiliar with this scene.

It is the savior white feather that ended the world's disasters and is a symbol of peace in the post-order era.

It is the belief in the hearts of countless survivors.

Even the survivors who were isolated from the world and had never actually seen this pure white feather.

Through what I have seen and heard these days and through the paintings of masters on the world forum, I have come to understand what this pure white feather represents.

That is hope!

That is eternal day!

That……

It was the signal for Yong Zhou to announce the start of the public memorial service.

Everyone understood that this was the signal that Yong Zhou had mentioned to announce the start of the public memorial service.

After confirming this.

A heavy and slow piece of instrumental music sounded, and names of people kept ringing out in the music, serving as the BGM of the public memorial ceremony.

This is the procedure for reciting the list of deceased persons.

All the survivors looked up at the platform.

A military officer walked up to the platform and began his serious memorial speech.

Awei should have been the person in charge here.

However, the day before the public memorial ceremony, Yong Zhou called him away.

It is said that he went to attend the public memorial service inside Yongzhu.

so.

The speech ceremony was given to the school officer who had always helped Awei.

Lin Miao looked over carefully.

In the past, whenever there were major events at school, she would simply ignore the leaders’ speeches.

I believe that most people have basically this attitude towards leaders’ speeches.

But now.

Most of them looked over carefully.

Facing countless gazes.

The officer's face was serious and he held the microphone tightly in his hand.

"My fellow countrymen..."

"Let the past serve as a warning to future generations! We will never give up and pray for peace!"

“…”

His words were heard far away through the loudspeaker system installed two days ago.

Basically every survivor who came to attend the public memorial service heard it clearly.

The speech was not long.

It begins with the title of a post on the World Forum: "The past is a warning to future generations! We must never give up and pray for peace!"

It tells in simple terms the greatness of the deceased and the importance of remembering history in the future.

The writing is brilliant but also contains simple and easy-to-understand language, which can particularly arouse everyone's emotions in today's scene.

Many survivors shed tears silently.

Lin Miao also raised his head, trying to prevent the moisture in his eyes from falling.

But I found out when I looked up.

The slowly falling pure white feather did not disappear, and it had already landed on her head at some point.

So close.

She subconsciously reached out to touch it.

A strange feeling suddenly came over me.

Everything around was changing quietly.

The platform and the flags disappeared, the crowds of people participating in the public memorial service disappeared, and the voices reading the names of the deceased disappeared...

It is a warm and familiar embrace.

Surround her.

This feeling made Lin Miao's eyes turn red and she couldn't hold back any more.

Because she knew the origin of this embrace.

She looked up and saw her mother looking at her with a kind smile.

now.

It is so peaceful and tranquil.

She wanted to stay in her mother's arms forever.

"My dear Miaomiao, you have grown up."

The mother touched Lin Miao's forehead with a smile, her tone full of doting.

To this.

Lin Miao just buried his head deeply in his mother's arms.

Even though she knew it was just an illusion.

Still don't want to leave at all.

but.

The mother in this fantasy patted her head and whispered, "Well, there are others waiting in line to see you."

"I have had enough of this illusion. There is a real spiritual being waiting for you."

Mother said.

Slowly dissipated on the spot.

This made Lin Miao, who had lost the warm embrace, stunned.

But she quickly recovered and turned to look behind her.

All I saw was an empty, pure white scene all around.

In an instant, it turned back to the Yongzhou Base in Linjiang City on the tree-lined road.

In front of him was Ying Zhongtang sitting in a wheelchair, slowly peeling a banana.

Lin Miao looked at everything that was familiar.

Approaching with slow steps.

Until she arrived in front of Ying Zhongtang, she asked with a trembling voice: "Uncle Ying, are you hallucinating?"

From the hallucination my mother had just now.

She understood one thing: the Uncle Ying she saw now was not an illusion.

"This global display of pure white feathers is a large-scale illusion, allowing the global survivors who are currently undergoing public memorial services to see the people they want to see one last time."

"And we, the victims of Eternal Day, can maintain our spiritual immortality for a period of time. We can take advantage of this illusion to perform a remote projection."

"So... I am definitely not your hallucination."

Ying Zhongtang finished speaking calmly.

He handed the peeled banana to Lin Miao's mouth.

Seeing this.

Lin Miao leaned over with tears in her eyes and took a bite.

Very sweet.

The taste of the banana was the same as when Uncle Ying peeled it for her while sitting in a wheelchair.

Just this familiar taste.

But it became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and Lin Miao couldn't help but ask with tears in her eyes: "Brother Wei and Captain Li Hongtu refused to tell me your specific situation."

"Tell me, are you still alive?"

In addition to crying, there was also a hint of stubbornness in Lin Miao's tone.

In addition to stubbornness, there is also a glimmer of hope.

Complex emotions are mixed in it.

Even though she had just heard Ying Zhongtang say that she was a victim, she still pretended not to hear it.

She didn't want to believe it.

I thought she had let it go these days.

I found that I hadn't let it go at all.

"Miaomiao."

"It's okay...it's okay..."

Ying Zhongtang didn't say much, but just hugged Lin Miao in his arms.

Patting her back gently.

The tone was full of tenderness and comfort.

He did not answer Lin Miao's question, but just said silently that it was okay.

The surroundings became quiet.

Apart from Lin Miao's sobbing and Ying Zhongtang's gentle comfort, there was nothing else.

a long time.

The two separated.

Lin Miao looked at Ying Zhongtang with an unprecedented serious expression.

"Let me inherit your raven. It will also allow 4399 and my meow to keep each other company."

Lin Miao's words were very serious.

What she wanted to express was not just to find a friend for the hamster Meow Meow.

Inherit the Raven.

In the eternal day it means a kind of inheritance from the old to the new.

It represents Lin Miao's firm will to join Yong Zhou.

"good."

"Raven 4399 is also familiar enough with you."

Ying Zhongtang smiled and nodded, stroking Lin Miao's little head.

He knew what Lin Miao meant.

Normally he would definitely refuse such a child from becoming a member of Everday.

But now...

There's actually nothing to refuse.

perhaps.

Not allowing Lin Miao to inherit would be the greatest denial and harm to her.

(End of this chapter)