"I'm just one step away from being admitted to graduate school." The blonde student's body suddenly relaxed. She was actually thinking about such a question when the world was about to be destroyed.
"I've worked for my supervisor for three years for nothing, and I no longer have any recommendation letters." The student with a crew cut next to him pounded his fist on the table.
"I'm going to die before I even enter the Central City Laboratory... I haven't even seen the City Lord in person."
"I want to go home. My mother lives in a marginalized area. Since I entered college, I haven't been back to see her for a long time..."
The black fog outside the window grew thicker, and the temperature in the auditorium dropped little by little. The indoor temperature was no longer sufficient to maintain the needs, and the students felt cold.
A ball of fire lit up, and the open space under the podium in the auditorium started the indoor heating device. They threw the tables, chairs and books into it, and the fire flickered in the glass cover, and the bright light swallowed up the essence of these knowledge bit by bit.
Textbooks with detailed notes left on them, notebooks with experimental diaries, organized lesson plans, and sketches filled with drawings... were all swallowed up in the warm light.
In times of disaster, even books lose their original meaning.
Yamada Machi took a breath and stared at the black fog outside the window.
He thought that everything he saw now was just a tiny corner of the world, but it was also a microcosm of the entire world.
"Little sister..." At this time, the blonde student girl hugged him and sobbed, "I want to go home, I miss my mother."
Yamada Machiichi held her hand.
"Don't be afraid." Yamada Machi's lips trembled:
“Home is everywhere.”
They maintained their hugging posture, like the most inconspicuous couple keeping each other warm in the end times. Similar to them, there were dozens of couples hugging each other in the auditorium.
…
outside world.
A dark reconnaissance plane was hovering high in the sky. Beneath the red pool of blood was a two-kilometer-deep sinkhole.
The truck stopped next to the sinkhole, and dozens of soldiers lay beside the sinkhole, smoking slowly.
The snow-white ashes followed the tapping of fingers, and the smoke drifted in the wind, carrying the soldiers' long gazes into the distance.
The broken instruments were thrown aside. Just now, they had smashed these precious detection instruments with their own hands. Their mission was to go deep into the cenote and bring up the backup energy stored in it, but the moment they heard the world broadcast, it had lost its meaning.
The soldiers, blinded by anger, smashed the precious instruments that they had carefully protected along the way.
"From a universal perspective, this is just a battle for the right to survive, similar to the battles between tribes in primitive times for territory. The war between [Hewei] and the ruined world is also just a battle between different civilizations for survival - a war between civilizations that gambles everything."
"——I'm sorry that this is the outcome for you."
The voice of their city lord came over the car radio amidst the noise. The soldier wearing a star-shaped military cap tapped the cigarette in his hand and laughed.
"City Lord." The soldier's voice was light and he muttered to himself in the air:
"What have you done wrong?"
"When the fate of the entire tribe is in your hands, let as many people as possible survive."
He turned around and reached for the bottle of wine next to him. The soldiers lay on the ground in a circle, drinking the low-quality liquor in the carriage, ready to face the final outcome in this manner.
The disk spins and old-school disco music fills the air.
While drinking, the soldier suddenly noticed that there was another team on the other side of the tiankeng preparing to go down the tiankeng. The soldier blinked and shouted, "People on the other side! Stop going down the tiankeng, it's meaningless!"
No one on the other side paid any attention to the soldier's words. In the team, a black-haired girl was helping her brother put on equipment.
"Are you sure you want to go down?" Yueyue said.
Che looked down at the sinkhole and said, "We have to do what needs to be done. Since I have been assigned the task of going down to the sinkhole, I will finish it."
Yueyue nodded and helped him tie the last knot: "The equipment has been checked, come back safely."
Around them, twenty or thirty soldiers were still being tied up with ropes. Even after hearing the city lord's cruel declaration, they still did not give up the task at hand.
“Sister, you have never acted like a young person in her twenties. On the contrary, you are more rational than me most of the time… I heard some news recently, and I know your background may not be that simple.” Che said.
Yueyue raised her eyes and looked at him.
She really doesn't belong to this world. Sometimes, she feels that she is out of tune with this world. If the NPCs knew this news, how would they look at her with rejection?
"But no matter what, you are my sister."
But Che said so.
He patted Yueyue's shoulder and whispered:
"I only know that the life I've lived with you for the past twenty years has been real. If you had a better life and more friends before, and if you could go to a better world in the future instead of being buried with this ruined world, I would be very satisfied with your brother for just twenty years."
"Sister, I have long felt that this world is too evil. People are not like people, and ghosts are not like ghosts. If I die here, it can be regarded as paving the way for others and making a contribution to my hometown. I will be satisfied."
"At least... I didn't freeze to death pointlessly."
Yueyue's pupils trembled slightly.
"Don't be silly." After a moment, she said, "You are my brother too."
Che laughed and walked to the edge of the tiankeng. The rough knot dragged on the ground, and his steps were steady and swift.
He looked at the bottomless darkness below and whispered:
"Now I finally understand what City Lord Lewis felt when he faced the edge of the world."
He descended along the rock wall, the rope twisting and turning, making a "crunching" sound.
Along with him, dozens of soldiers who had not given up jumped down. They landed under the rock wall, crushing the bones left by their predecessors, with lights on their helmets all the time.
In the darkness, a glimmer of light emerges.
…
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