While hugging Noah, Su Mingan injected a dose of stimulant into Noah's neck and pushed in a potion that could heal the wound.
But AI Yeya said that this no longer worked. Noah's mental state was beyond help and he was just forcibly maintaining his sanity.
"Grandpa, Grandpa..."
He heard Noah calling him again and again, but this time he didn't speak and said, "Stop calling."
This is because Noah is extremely afraid of losing him.
He should have known long ago that for those who survived the 72 years after the catastrophe, the sliced future would exist in the Measurement City - and for those who did not exist in the Measurement City, it meant that they did not survive the 72 years after the catastrophe.
so……
There is no Noah in the future.
In the room with red lights flashing, all one could see was a sea of blood and a few puddles of water reflecting light on the ground. Noah's pupils trembled slightly.
"It doesn't matter."
"For people like me, there is no ending."
"I don't think that my affection for you is the product of any skill. I have never regretted meeting you in District 11 that day, Grandpa. That was the luckiest thing that happened to me in this not-so-good life."
"Your persistence and yearning for Haruhi, everything you've done for the ruined world... all of it fascinates me, and I can't help but dislike you."
"Are you satisfied with the current outcome?" Su Mingan said in a low voice.
Noah smiled.
Scarlet began to flash in his pupils.
"Satisfied... Very satisfied. My sacrifice was worth it. The half of the mechanical army that was stopped will save countless people who would have died in the war."
He said:
"Grandpa, I... love you."
"I just have some, some..."
He suddenly choked and trembled as he uttered the remaining words:
…
"…I can't bear to see you go."
…
Su Mingan tightened his grip.
He wanted to say something, but he couldn't utter a word. At this moment, no words could express his feelings. It was as if... hundreds of birds were flying in his chest.
In the room with blood-red warning lights flashing, Noah raised his head. His lower body was unable to move and a large amount of blood soaked his robe.
There is a wilderness-like calmness in his eyes, which reminds people of the golden fields and the sunflowers blooming in the flowerbeds under the spring sun. That kind of unrestrained temperament is bolder and freer than any human in the ruined world.
——He is a white bird of the new century.
Even though White Bird never stepped into the new century.
He stretched out his hand and wiped the blood off the dungeon medal on Su Mingan's chest with his fingers, making it shine like gold, as if to say, don't let it be stained with dust.
Nostalgia struggled in his eyes, and after a moment, he spoke:
"Can you show me what the city-state will look like in the future? Can you show me what kind of world I will save in the future? Will there be... suns with the same hair color as mine, and countless... sunflowers?"
Su Mingan was stunned. He knew that it was now eternal night in the Measurement City. There was no sunshine and spring that Noah expected.
"Yeah."
Su Mingan said in a low voice.
He didn't hint at anything, but Yeya understood.
“Wow——”
A screen appeared, and after flickering for a moment, it presented an extremely warm illusion.
In the picture, Yeya constructed a virtual scene of the city of measurement, with bustling streets and alleys, trains like long dragons, children running in the school with balloons, and old people feeding white birds with crutches.
Between the parks, sunflowers are blooming luxuriantly. They are in full bloom - blooming warmly towards the sun, like gold spread on the earth.
"No eternal night, no blood, no soldiers frozen to death and mutilated corpses..." Noah murmured to himself.
This is just a white lie from Su Mingan, a false image of the city-state.
In fact, the current Surveying City has also fallen into eternal night, and a large number of soldiers have died on the way to transport resources.
But Su Mingan helped the free white bird in front of him and weaved a final, beautiful dream.
Noah stared at the camera for a long time. He wanted to touch it with his fingers, but his fingers passed through the virtual screen - he was a person who could not touch the future.
“No matter the past, present or future, I cannot cross the dimension that has been fixed.”
"Sunflowers cannot really touch the sun. If they get too close, they will be burned, or even incinerated by the distant temperature..."
"Watching the sunshine in the sky from afar until it withers in the end is the best ending it can have."
"So, this scene is...real?" Noah whispered.
"Really." Su Ming'an firmly believed in this lie and did not reveal the cruel truth.
Noah took a breath, his eyes seemed nostalgic and happy. He put his fingers on Su Mingan's shoulders, moved his bloodstained cheek closer, and whispered to Su Mingan's face, his tone the same as always.
Like a big golden retriever, it is a little coquettish and a little playful.
"That's great... Grandpa." He pointed at the virtual image and smiled:
"That's really..."
"So beautiful."
"spring……"
He took another breath.
——That’s enough.
——This is what he wants to see.
Flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, and white birds are flying high.
——It was a prosperous spring that could not be surpassed by the most beautiful dreams, it was a spring that even the gods were jealous of.
Su Mingan nodded slightly.
At this moment, the weight on his shoulders suddenly slipped away. Noah closed his eyes and lowered his head.
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