【Science is the final step in the development of human intelligence and can be regarded as the highest and most unique achievement of human culture.】
[It is a very late and very delicate achievement that could only be developed under special conditions.]
[It is seen as the culmination and ultimate of all our human activities, the final chapter of mankind and the final theme of human philosophy.]
【——Cassirer, An Essay on Man】
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Under the red waves of data, the light source spread across the entire city like wildfire.
People raised the flames in their hands high, connecting them into a path of light leading directly to the Central Building, like a long river of the decline of civilization.
With similar postures and expressions, they held torches in their hands and looked toward the central building. The reflections of the firelight danced on their faces, illuminating their blood-stained pupils.
One torch is not enough to penetrate the thick black fog. When thousands of fires gather together, looking down from a high place, it looks like a natural river of fire.
The flames are like souls breaking free from their restraints, as if billions of awakened souls are heading towards a new life.
Like setting a bird free, people desperately tried to open the iron cage that bound it. With the sound of breaking gold and melting iron, the bird rushed to the outside world. The mountains of bones piled up beside the iron cage stared at its back and told it -
Go ahead.
Fly.
"Grandpa, why do we need to light a fire?" a little girl asked her grandfather.
Her grandfather's cloudy eyes trembled and he said, "For hope."
"What is hope?" asked the little girl.
Grandpa didn't say anything, just pointed up at the sky.
Suddenly, a piercing sound of breaking through the air arose from the sky, and hundreds of aircraft flew through the air, like a dazzling galaxy guarding the city-state.
“Hoo—hoo—hoo!”
A pool of clear light lit up from their tails, like a series of obliquely flying meteors, leaving long tails of light sources behind them, and beautiful colors blended with each other.
The common point they pointed to was a tall, burning building, like a torch in the eternal night. The base of the building was blasted open by the source stone, with the tip pointing upwards, like a sharp blade standing in the epoch, towering above the earth.
The bright red flames pointed towards the sky, dyeing even the eternal night red.
“Clatter—crater—!!”
Here and there, the light of the city-state flows with the slight movements of the crowd, like countless stars crushed in the moonlight, like fine ice melting in clean fire, like scattered lights in the depths of the mist, and like a bizarre dream.
When the god sat on the throne of Hephaestus,
In an instant, the bright red color filled the entire dark sky, like a sunflower that suddenly bloomed.
The terrifying data streams appeared and disappeared from the dome, flickering like the rhythm of nerves and blood vessels. The voices in the sky screamed with fear.
The god fell on the rooftop, his whole body covered in the pain brought by the rose blood. This extreme pain was unbearable even for him, he wanted to commit suicide to escape, but his fingers could not move.
"——Su Ming'an! Su Ming'an! Come out here!"
"Su Mingan!!"
He received no reply, and the fire below had already spread across the prairie.
Instantly, a violent explosion rose from under the central building and rushed straight up. Intense flames overflowed and surged, like long rings of dissipating flames.
The building began to tremble and collapse!
Grains of rubble collapsed like tangled blood vessels, the air was shattered, and smoke and dust flew all over the sky, like a collapsing hell.
"Su Mingan——!!" the god roared.
"Akto, what are you doing! Stop, stop!!" Even the voice in the sky realized that something was wrong.
However, Su Mingan did not reply. He hooked the puppet string, his soul floating above his body, and watched the night scene of the city-state with his soul.
He ignored the angry or begging voices, curled the corners of his lips and murmured.
“…It’s so beautiful.”
So beautiful.
——The brilliant river of civilization is like thousands of airplanes with the morning star and the sky of everlasting flames.
All fires and light sources were lit at the same moment, and the city was already brightly lit.
He saw the ginkgo trees in the inner city that had not yet withered. They had lived from the first year of the disaster to the 102nd year, witnessing all the vicissitudes of life, like living fossils of civilization. There was also the small wooden teahouse, which nestled quietly between the overlapping branches of the trees. If you sit by the railing, you can still enjoy the beautiful scenery.
The wartime command center from the Dawn War is still preserved, the political center building from the 49th year of the disaster is still there, and the ruins of the glass building that collapsed on the night of the decisive battle in the 72nd year of the disaster are also well preserved, their bricks and tiles maintain their original appearance, like a long-lost sacrifice.
A white bird flapped its wings and flew high from the bell tower, and the golden leaves of the ginkgo trees fluttered around like butterflies, until a leaf gently fell into the palm of the stone statue of Asa Akto in the square.
The stone statue of Akto still maintained a steady smile, and those eyes seemed to penetrate the long history of mankind and the long river of civilization, penetrating through 2,300 simulations and gently falling on this beautiful city-state that he himself had not yet arrived at.
——It was as if Asa Ak-To was standing here, in a white coat, staring at the civilization he had risked his life to save.
Su Mingan felt a lump in his throat.
He seemed to see that the creature "human" had walked for a long, long time, and finally reached spring. A dispute between civilizations had been going on for a long time, and finally came to an end.
"——High temperature warning, the temperature inside the cabin has reached 40 degrees Celsius."
"——High temperature warning, the temperature inside the cabin has reached 45 degrees Celsius."
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